Suzanne Roq

“I wonder why we find it so uncomfortable to maintain relationships with those who have sauntered to goodness elsewhere and found it.”
― Lore Ferguson Wilbert, The Understory: An Invitation to Rootedness and Resilience from the Forest Floor

“Watergaw means a part of a rainbow. Only part. A broken piece one might see through the clouds. Greer garnered hope from it as a way to search for beauty, even within brokenness."
A piece of rainbow. Shattered light but still beautiful.”
― Pepper Basham

“That means, of course, that ‘good art’ varies from one person to another, doesn’t it? And that good art can come from a child or a master. I don’t think the critics, especially the moderns, appreciate that idea very much. I think they like telling us what’s legitimate as art, what has worth and what doesn’t.”
― Allen Levi, Theo of Golden

“I want to make the loss of relationships and the crumbling of institutions all their fault and not mine. Their isolationism, their idolatry, their idealism about what constitutes faithfulness. But the truth is it takes two to drift apart through time or willfulness. One leaves or the other lets them or both leave. It's never all down to one of us.”
― Lore Ferguson Wilbert, The Understory: An Invitation to Rootedness and Resilience from the Forest Floor