Suzanne Roq

“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

“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 am temporal, and I am eternal, and neither makes complete sense, but I believe it nonetheless. Adsum. I am here.”
― Lore Ferguson Wilbert, The Understory: An Invitation to Rootedness and Resilience from the Forest Floor

“Help me hold what is beautiful in the world, and even though it contains unexpected ashes and terrible tears, remind me it also holds the source of life.”
― Lore Ferguson Wilbert, The Understory: An Invitation to Rootedness and Resilience from the Forest Floor