Lecy Beth

“The collective stress of the Covid-19 pandemic mixed with racial unrest across the country, tied up with a divisive presidential election, all came together and created a perfect storm. This storm blew many of us off course—even if by one degree, it was enough.”
― Carlos Whittaker, How to Human: Three Ways to Share Life Beyond What Distracts, Divides, and Disconnects Us

“Living in proximity to death will either make you more afraid of dying or detached from its heaviness.”
― Rebecca Woolf, All of This: A Memoir of Death and Desire

“When I was a child in school, I never understood why we spent so much time learning about things we didn’t need to know when I had so many questions about life—about real life—that went unanswered. Unstudied. Unlearned.”
― Rebecca Woolf, All of This: A Memoir of Death and Desire

“If you draw a straight line from the tip of a ship and it continues—going straight—for one thousand miles, it will end up in the place to which it is pointing. But if that boat moves by only one tiny degree, for a few days of travel it may seem like that the ship is still heading to the original target. However, that one degree of change will eventually mean that the ship misses the original destination by more than sixteen miles on a 960-mile journey. That simple one-degree adjustment doesn’t seem like a big deal, day after day, but as those days slowly add up over weeks, you will arrive at a completely different destination than you originally planned.”
― Carlos Whittaker, How to Human: Three Ways to Share Life Beyond What Distracts, Divides, and Disconnects Us