Maureen

“Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.”
― Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

“I came to define God by His handiwork: a craftsman who builds the hope of eternity into our genes, a master electrician and chemist who outfits our brains to access another dimension, a guru who rewards our spiritual efforts by allowing us to feel united with all things, an intelligence that pervades every atom and every nanosecond, all time and space, in the throes of death, or the ecstasy of life.”
― Barbara Bradley Hagerty, Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality

“Through the month of December, the radio was slowly strangled by Christmas Carols”
― Michael Crummey, Sweetland

“Choose where to invest your energy, and do so intentionally, because the clearest path to a robust midlife is purposeful engagement.”
― Barbara Bradley Hagerty, Life Reimagined: The Science, Art, and Opportunity of Midlife