Kate Walters

“We are here, as Diane Ackerman writes, to live not just the length of our lives, but the width of them as well. We”
― Ingrid Fetell Lee, Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness

“Why did she protect the sick ones at the expense of the well ones?”
― Robert Kolker, Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family

“serious?” I believe we unconsciously abide by this principle because our notion of work is rooted in an industrial economy that values efficiency and structure at the expense of joy and creativity.”
― Ingrid Fetell Lee, Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness

“It never stopped amazing both Lindsay and Margaret how to so many people outside of Hidden Valley Road, their mother, in her advancing years, seemed almost saintly in her devotion to her family. “Despite some physical illness on her part, she does not seem to let this get her down,” one Pueblo doctor wrote in 1987. “Her attitude is that she must keep going and somehow things take care of themselves.”
― Robert Kolker, Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family