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“Oh, how words love Hawkes. They wrap around the unexpected inflections of his voice, eager, offering their best cadence and lilt and soul. They know him well, and he them. Almost as if words are the one thing in his life he has never had to push away. He speaks words the way they pound in my chest. And it feels like a miracle, finding such a dear part of oneself walking around in someone else’s body.”

“She felt that most of what she wrote was pointless nonsense but that the act of writing helped her somehow in the living of life. It made a way for her to be alone with her thoughts and make sense of the events of her days, a necessity for an internal processor. And when she looked back over what she had written…it helped her see a shape to the events of her life.” {I get you Elisabeth. I get you.}

“Poor Dad! It made me, too, feel weepy to hear how bad he felt before the operation. I’m sure we should all be far more tolerant and loving toward our fellow men if we only knew and understood half of the cause of their troubles and seeming peculiarities.”

“A flexible heart is a discerning heart. It picks up each moment and discerns the true and the false voices within it. It asks, in each moment, ‘Where does love lie for my child in all this?’” ~Ronald Rolheiser, “Domestic Monastery”

I went out to see how they were getting on. A fine drizzle had set in, and the sodden Gaston was wrestling with the serpentine coils of the suction hose while Bernard, blazer slung nonchalantly around his shoulders, was directing operations from the shelter of his umbrella. “There,” I thought, “is a man who understands how to delegate.”

Trying Serena’s favorite book.

“I had not known before that love is obedience. You want to love, and you can’t, and you hate yourself because you can’t, and all the time love is not some marvelous thing that you feel but some hard thing that you do. And this in a way is easier because with God’s help you can command your will when you can’t command your feelings. With us, feelings seem to be important, but He doesn’t seem to agree.”