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

“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

“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

“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