Diana

“Thriving is possible only if you have nurtured strong bonds with your community.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

“Ecopsychologists have shown that the practice of gratitude puts brakes on hyperconsumption. The relationships nurtured by gift thinking diminish our sense of scarcity and want. In that climate of sufficiency, our hunger for more abates and we take only what we need, in respect for the generosity of the giver.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

“an honest hope, which perhaps saves us from two unholy polarities—the empty positivity and blind optimism that masquerade as hope (yet are never honest about the realities of pain and death), or the surrender to despair and hopelessness. Honest hope is birthed in the realness in between the messy headlines of today’s news. It invites us to consider every situation, no matter how despairing, as something we don’t have to walk through alone, but as the very birthplace for divine participation.”
― Scott Erickson, Honest Advent: Awakening to the Wonder of God-with-Us Then, Here, and Now

“There is so much I won’t ever know. I will never know how Edith Lieber Vonnegut felt when she watched from her kitchen window as this tree dropped all its leaves in one furious afternoon. I will never know the inside of your life, what you’ve survived to reach this now. I will never know what it’s like to live as a tree, growing up into the light and down into the soil. But I know the thrill I feel beneath the ginkgo tree, how looking up at it makes me feel an awe that contains both wonder and fear at its edges, and thanks to the generosity of my neighbor, I know that I am unalone in this thrill.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed