Ellen S

“What crannies of untouched perception can you explore? What autumn was it that the moon entered your life? When was it that you picked blueberries at their quintessential moment? How long did you wait for your first true bike? Who are your angels? What are you thinking of? Not thinking of? What are you looking at? Not looking at?”
― Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

“Even in a seemingly futile moment or losing cause, one person may unknowingly inspire another, and that person yet a third, who could go on to change the world, or at least a small corner of it. Mandela called this process “the multiplication of courage.”
― Paul Rogat Loeb, The Impossible Will Take a Little While: Perseverance and Hope in Troubled Times: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear

“I had to get slow and dumb (not take anything for granted) and watch and see how everything connects, how you contact your thoughts and lay them down on paper.”
― Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

“too often I’ve used up precious time preparing for experiences rather than just having them.”
― Joan Anderson, A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman