Twig’s Daughter

“Eden is a conversation. It is the conversation of the human with the Divine. And it is the reverberations of that conversation that create a sense of place. It is not a thing, Eden, but a pattern of relationships, made visible in conversation. To live in Eden is to live in the midst of good relations, of just relations scrupulously attended to, imaginatively maintained through time. Altogether we call this beauty.”
― Barry López

Mom And The Boys

“Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.”
― Barry López

Shadow

“We are here to witness. There is nothing else to do with those mute materials we do not need. Until Larry teaches his stone to talk, until God changes his mind, or until the pagan gods slip back to their hilltop groves, all we can do with the whole inhuman array is watch it.”
— Annie Dillard

Uniforms

“The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.”
— Annie Dillard

Luisa’s Son

“We never know what is going to happen, do we? Life is always throwing us this way and that. That’s where the adventure is. Not knowing where you’ll end up or how you’ll fare. It’s all a mystery, and when we say any different, we’re just lying to ourselves. Tell me, when have you felt most alive?”
― Eowyn Ivey

Savasana

“Few people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate.”
— W.H. Auden

A Few Good Men

“As some strings, untouched,
sound when no one is speaking.

So it was when love slipped inside us.”
― Jane Hirshfield

Barrels

“I.
Don’t trace out your profile–
forget your side view–
all that is outer stuff.

II.
Look for your other half
who walks always next to you
and tends to be who you aren’t.”
― Antonio Machado

Spoiled By Love

“In my dreams, I never have an age.”
― Madeleine L’Engle

Family

“…but it doesn’t feel crazy to us.
It feels like what we do.”
― Sharon Creech