Suzanne Roq

“It’s hard enough to define what art is, much less ‘good art.’ I wonder if there is such a thing. Maybe there are just good responses. But I guess if a work of art makes us see something familiar in a new way or makes us feel something we ought to have felt all along or shows us our place in the world more clearly, maybe then it qualifies as ‘good.’ If it makes us better somehow, maybe that’s what gives it value.”
― Allen Levi, Theo of Golden

“Despite all our hope in a world to come and belief in a new earth, the earth we live within now is foreshadowing the way we will all go.”
― 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

“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