Jenn

“For the same reason all fools give up good things. We look at our hands and wonder what we could hold if they were empty.” She hastily wiped the tears from her eyes.”
― Samantha Sotto Yambao, Water Moon

“life is about finding joy in the space between where you came from and where you are going”
― Samantha Sotto Yambao, Water Moon

“All of those thousands upon thousands of photographs my father had taken. Think of them instead. Each one a record, a testament, a bulwark against forgetting, against nothingness, against death. Look, this happened. A thing happened, and now it will never un happen. Here it is in a photograph: a baby putting its tiny hand in the wrinkled palm of an octogenarian. A fox running across a woodland path and a man raising a gun to shoot it. A plane crash. A comet smeared across a morning sky. A prime minister wiping his brow. The Beatles, sitting at a cafe table on the Champs-Elysees on a cold January day in 1964, John Lennon's pale face under the brim of a fisherman's cap. all these things happened, and my father committed them to a memory that wasn't just his own, but the world's. My father's life wasn't about disappearance. His was a life that worked against it.”
― Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk

“When you spend your life dreading your future, you learn to welcome anything that makes you wait.”
― Samantha Sotto Yambao, Water Moon