Sherri

“She asked me once what would I do if she lost her memory.
How would I remind her of my touch, my scent,
the way we kiss, from all these miles away.

And so I told her, "You can still feel the sunlight from
thousands of light-years away, you can still see the beauty
in the stars burning miles before yesterday, you
can still hear the call of your love's voice even after the
dream ends, you can still understand the magic of a letter
long after words have been penned."

I told her that memory is more than being present. It is
in the way I feel every time I see a flower in her favorite
color; it is in the playlist we made each other this past
summer. It is in the stories we share about our day; it is in
the pictures we have that will last forever.

I told my love, "The space between is not measured
by how many lonely nights we spend apart but rather
all the beautiful moments always connecting my heart to
your heart.”
― Courtney Peppernell, The Space Between Us: Poetry and Prose

“Collectively they remind us that history is much more than an education process. Understanding the past is a matter of experience as well as knowledge, a striving to make spiritual, emotional, poetic, dramatic, and inspirational connections with our forebears.”
― Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

“A good book is never finished—-it goes on whispering to you from the wall.”
― Virginia Wolff

“To get lost in a story, or even a study, is inherently to acknowledge the voice of another, to broaden one’s perspective beyond the confines of one’s own understanding. A good book is the opposite of a selfie; the right book at the right time can expand our lives in the way love does, making us more thoughtful, more generous, more brave, more alert to the world’s wonders and more pained by its inequities, more wise, more kind.”
― James Mustich, 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List