wisdom

Well, I think you get to a place where you realize you have nothing to lose. 

Nothing at all. Then you have no reason to bind yourself. I had no reason to hold on. 

I found it stupid to hold on, to close myself up and hold within me nothing. 

So I decided to try everything, to keep myself wide open to human beings,

 all human beings — seeing them as I understand them to be, 

not as they wish they were, but as I understand them to be. 

Very truthfully — not idealistically, but realistically. 

And seeing that if this person knew better he would do better.

 That doesn’t mean that I don’t protect myself from his actions, you know. 

Maya Angelou

Accept that cars aren’t necessary and that some meals take hours, 

that we can now fly to space, that there’s nothing wrong with crashing on couches 

if you’re on an adventure, that three outfits are enough, that sunrises are free, 

that the first time you see Machu Picchu it will break your heart, 

that being alone in a country with no money and no return ticket will teach you more about yourself than any therapist ever could…

Aric S. Queen  

by Craig Easton

To my daughter I will say,

‘See your beauty

without a compliment

or a mirror.’

'Blind' by Della Hicks-Wilson 

Sometimes people have nothing to say because they’re too empty and sometimes people have nothing to say because they’re too full.' 

There are days when I can't get the stories out of my heart and on to the paper.

 I love life too much. I love people, and places, and faces, and smiles, and I'm full.

I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.

 Jack Gilbert