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My inheritance is grief and sunlight, and the ability to choose which to hold on to.

“Maybe some people die gradually, move away from their bodies overtime, but others - people who shine- go in an instant. You can see their souls until the last possible second, fill the gap in the world, the second they’re lost.”

How to draw a picture (IV)— Start with what you know, then reinvent it. Art is magic, no argument there, but all art, no matter how strange, starts in the humble everyday.

As part of her independent streak, Laura had created an annual outing. It was called the Chickless Mothers. Women like herself, who did not have loving or demonstrative families.

They keep asking me am I part of the New Poor. I don’t know where they heard the term but they love it.

“Can anyone of your sex-mad older generation realize that people in their twenties can be friends these days?”

… at that moment, the world remained dark, quiet, caught in its own moment of “dormiveglia”.

Gratitude only emphasized the depth of your lack, so she tried to hide it.

“We had simply been young people once. We didn’t get the benefit of a phase of life where rebellion and recalcitrance and moodiness were expected or excused. Hopefully, Bahar wouldn’t become a rebellious American teenager.”

“For a while, we did the Persian tarof dance where he was self-deprecating and apologetic for his tea, and I insisted it was the best I’d ever had.”

These doctors always seem to think women’s emotions are things to be hidden and locked away and fixed.

…drew an outline of a person who was generous wise and kind, and Angela’s longing, animated his image with life and color. This two dimensional…., the one she imagined was never real.

The girls who tried to emulate her wore the aura of having worked hard to appear effortless. The boys who asked her out, had a high opinion of themselves.

There’s no simple arithmetic for life’s distribution of happiness and sorrow, no such thing as a standard share.

“I don’t fall in love anymore. Just like I don’t get the mumps.”

There’s something honest about an industrial harbor. There are no royal yacht clubs here, no promenades, no energy, wasted on façades.

“For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad.” Mark 4:22
Face in divine justice has given her patience.”

“I feel the same way about my spatial freedom as I’ve noticed men feel about their testicles. I cradle it like a baby, & worship it like a goddess.”

If I were a millionaire, I’d give her all my money so she could give elotes con chile away for free all day, as a service to the world.

He is a pontiff of multiple peripheries: born in Chicago, formed in Peru, elected in Rome.

The rise of a North American pontiff—an occurrence that was for decades considered diplomatically problematic, even taboo—represents a deep recalibration of the Church’s relationship with Western power itself.

“The next pope,” he said, “must know how to guard the deposit of faith—but with the tenderness of a confessor, not the sternness of a judge.”

Robert’s contribution helped shape the synod’s emphasis on integral ecology, indigenous rights, and inculturated evangelization.

The novitiate year was a time of withdrawal from the world, marked by intense prayer, study of the Rule of St. Augustine, and discernment within community life.