Carolyn

“Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light.”
― Mary Oliver

“We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it.”
― Mary Oliver

“You see, but you do not observe.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia

“When you sneak into somebody’s backyard, it does seem that guts and curiosity are working together. Curiosity can bring guts out of hiding at times, maybe even get them going. But curiosity usually evaporates. Guts have to go for the long haul. Curiosity’s like a fun friend you can’t really trust. It turns you on and then it leaves you to make it on your own-with whatever guts you can muster.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle