“What is real to me is the power of our awareness when we are focused on something beyond ourselves. It is a shaft of light shining in a dark corner. Our ability to shift our perceptions and seek creative alternatives to the conondrums of modernity is in direct proportion to our empathy. Can we imagine, witness, and ultimately feel the suffering of another?”
― Finding Beauty in a Broken World
― Finding Beauty in a Broken World
“Shards of glass can cut and wound or magnify a vision. Mosaic celebrates brokenness and the beauty of being brought together”
― Finding Beauty in a Broken World
― Finding Beauty in a Broken World
“What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences.”
― Finding Beauty in a Broken World
― Finding Beauty in a Broken World
“People talk about medium. What is your medium? My medium as a writer has been dirt, clay, sand--what I could touch, hold, stand on, and stand for--Earth. My medium has been Earth. Earth in correspondence with my mind.”
― Finding Beauty in a Broken World
― Finding Beauty in a Broken World
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