Betsy Kenerson

“Don’t wait on anyone to tell you what you are worth. You have to be the first person who knows what you are worth and can say what you are worth.”
― Cleo Wade, Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life

“Orphan Wisdom is a teaching house and a learning house for the skills of making human culture.

Knowledge, in an information-drunk, competence addicted culture like our own, must be the life-tested skill of gathering what is needed to make life without killing life in the gathering.

Wisdom is the place where knowledge is fired, forged, and annealed to become something of great beauty, useful to the world.

Human Culture is made when that beauty swells into life and dies to nourish a time we won’t live to see.

Knowledge gathers wood and flint and gut. Wisdom conjures a cranky, playable fiddle from the gatherings. People who have been bathed in the grief and love for life play some small magnificence on those fiddles together, and sing their unknown songs, and make human culture.”
― Stephen Jenkinson

“Love yourself enough to walk into only the rooms and situations that show care and love for you. Love yourself enough to walk out of the rooms that harm you in any way. Love yourself enough to hold the people who harm you accountable for their words and actions. Love yourself enough to express your wants, your needs, and your desires. Love yourself enough to tell the truth. Love yourself enough to keep yourself safe. Love yourself enough to say enough is enough when enough has become enough.”
― Cleo Wade, Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life

“Comparison and extreme competition run on insecurities and the belief in scarcity, which inevitably isolates us from one another.”
― Cleo Wade, Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life