“When I first started here, there was a detailed manual that taught me how to be a store worker, and I still don’t have a clue how to be a normal person outside that manual.”
― Convenience Store Woman
― Convenience Store Woman
“My present self is formed almost completely of the people around me.”
― Convenience Store Woman
― Convenience Store Woman
“Good, I pulled off being a “person.”
― Convenience Store Woman
― Convenience Store Woman
“Writing brought a new kind of light into my life. It was the light of living life twice, once in real time and once in reflective time. It allowed me to grow into my true self. Writing gave me an intellectually challenging life in which I could still live quietly in my own home.”
― A Life in Light: Meditations on Impermanence
― A Life in Light: Meditations on Impermanence
“Sometimes we falter not because the ground beneath our feet is unstable but because it's exhausting to keep moving, to keep trying, to keep performing the same actions again and again.”
― Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation
― Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation
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