Jim Brule

“Tis a Fearful Thing

‘Tis a fearful thing
to love what death can touch.

A fearful thing
to love, to hope, to dream, to be –

to be,
And oh, to lose.

A thing for fools, this,

And a holy thing,

a holy thing
to love.

For your life has lived in me,
your laugh once lifted me,
your word was gift to me.

To remember this brings painful joy.

‘Tis a human thing, love,
a holy thing, to love
what death has touched.”
― Judah Halevi

“Your consciousness is like a tiny stowaway on a transatlantic steamship, taking credit for the journey without acknowledging the massive engineering underfoot.”
― David Eagleman, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

“Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere.
They’re in each other all the time. – Rumi”
― Nancy Mellon, Healing Storytelling: The Art of Imagination and Storymaking for Personal Growth

“Like Tom Sawyer whitewashing the fence, authors trick readers into doing most of the imaginative work. Reading is often seen as a passive act: we lie back and let writers pipe joy into our brains. But this is wrong. When we experience a story, our minds are churning, working hard.”
― Jonathan Gottschall, The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human