Michelle

“Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home. JAMES JOYCE, AUTHOR”
― Mike Robbins, 365 Inspirational Quotes: A Year of Daily Wisdom from Great Thinkers, Books, Humorists, and More

“To me, the highlight of the event is watching a reenactor in a long striped dress sitting alone on a blanket, winding yarn. Absorbed in the task of wrapping strands of wool around her hand, she never looks up. Watching her is so mesmerizing and oddly sacred that it never occurs to me to interrupt her and ask her name or how she got into the yarn-winding reenactment biz, maybe because she isn’t recreating; she is creating.”
― Sarah Vowell, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

“THIS BODY Happy, I listen to the tinny sounds of the great music I still hear.   Dazzling clear pure upper tones have disappeared but I am alive,   silvery and achy—like Beethoven I listen with my imagination not my senses   to the cascading notes that play on the cosmos, I listen with my heart   and dance to the bliss I would never have known without this human body. JANINE CANAN”
― June Cotner, Gratitude Prayers: Prayers, Poems, and Prose for Everyday Thankfulness

“All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character—what we believe—none of it is real; it’s all part of the story we tell. But here’s the thing: it’s our goddamned story!” Debra”
― Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins