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3 habits of finding your calm:
1. Affirmations
2. Reframing
3. Gratitude (loving kindness meditation & the three P’s - Person/Pleasure/Promise)

“Hills were made so men could stand at the top of ‘em and roll their sins down…maybe one of these days the land will flatten out and we will be good enough people to not need hills”

“Why is it so many men of God are not of God at all, Betty?”

“Sometimes I think the universe is just a glow. The glow of a cigarette in the dark. All the stars, the planets, the galaxies, the infinite edges. It’s all in the small glowin’ tip of a cigarette in the hand of a man leanin’ back against a wall, watchin’ a girl walk by on her way home, knowin’ she’ll never get there.”

“Behind his charcoal strokes you could see…how a night could lose everything in an unbreakable rain.”

OMG CHAPTER 17

“Hissin’ and slitherin’ up and down my body like sin. It’s as if he aint eaten since the Garden of Eden.”

“Eagles fly so high, the tops of their heads touch heaven and turn the feathers white in how holy that touch is.”

“…not only did Dad need us to believe his stories, we needed to believe them as well… what it boiled down to was a frenzied hope that there was more to life than the reality around us. Only then could we claim a destiny we did not feel cursed to.”

“I find a dose of storytelling helps with the remedy.”

“But really keep an eye on the ones who live on decay, like the fungus that grows on hurt or weak trees.”

“Nature speaks to us. We just have to remember how to listen.”
“My father’s hands were soil. My mother’s were rain.”“Some people are as beautiful and soft as peonies, others as hard as a mountain. You’ll come across those who are so unforgettable, they’ll leave a rash on your memory as poison ivy does your skin.” “You’ll need to watch out for those who spread gossip as easily as dandelions.”