Suzanne Roq

“I have known real grief from real deaths, but the grief surrounding the death of friendships or relationships or institutions is another kind of grief. It's a grief with no home.”
― Lore Ferguson Wilbert, The Understory: An Invitation to Rootedness and Resilience from the Forest Floor

“In a refugee camp. you are always reminded of the things you have lost. It is a valiant and agonizing struggle to focus not on what you have LOST... but on what you have been GIVEN.”
― Victoria Jamieson, When Stars Are Scattered

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