Baihe (Lily) Yang

“Cooking is the tool I use to draw close to other people, though closeness makes me anxious. Cooking is how I manage closeness.”
― Rebecca May Johnson, Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen

“Well, now
If little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you
Little by little
If suddenly you forget me
Do not look for me
For I shall already have forgotten you

If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life
And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots
Remember
That on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms
And my roots will set off to seek another land”
― Pablo Neruda, Selected Poems

“Sometimes it's okay if the only thing you did today was breathe.”
― Yumi Sakugawa, There Is No Right Way to Meditate: And Other Lessons

“Cooking by the recipe a thousand times and more gives me this insight into language and its relation to living things.”
― Rebecca May Johnson, Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen