Suzanne Roq

“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

“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

“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