Rebecca

“That time I thought I could not go any closer to grief without dying I went closer, and I did not die.”
― Mary Oliver, Thirst

“We live in a world that responds to our longing; it is a place where the echoes always return, even if sometimes slowly.”
― John O'Donohue, Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong

“Belief isn’t always easy.
But this much I have learned—
if not enough else—
to live with my eyes open.”
― Mary Oliver, Thirst: Poems

“The trees in a forest care for each other, sometimes even going so far as to nourish the stump of a felled tree for centuries after it was cut down by feeding it sugars and other nutrients, and so keeping it alive. Only some stumps are thus nourished. Perhaps they are the parents of the trees that make up the forest of today.”
― Peter Wohlleben, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate — Discoveries from a Secret World