good thing the swimming pool is inside! 'cause it's starting to rain and we don't want to get wet!
... my niece clarabelle, at age 4 ...
i hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you, and that you will work with these stories from your life...water them with your blood and tears and your laughter til they bloom, til you yourself burst into bloom.
... clarissa pinkola estes ...
no one has ever measured not even poets how much the human heart can hold.
... zelda fitzgerald ...
i think every woman should have a blowtorch.
... julia child ...
the soul must...without concern for others' opinions, go freely where it finds its best director, going where God inspires it to go, and giving the new encounter every benefit.
... jean joseph surrin, 17th century french christian ...
earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God; but only he who sees, takes off his shoes; the rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.
... elizabeth barrett browning ...
err on the side of audacity
... sue monk kidd ...
the soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience
... emily dickinson ...
there is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside of you
... maya angelou ...
the imagination needs time to browse
... thomas merton ...
in seattle, you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running
... jeff bezos, founder, amazon.com ...
there are only four major food groups:
cabernet sauvignon, cheese, chocolate, and coffee
... becky basel, of basel estate cellars, walla walla ...
this is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare, taste, touch, smell, listen, argue, speak, write, read, draw, provoke, emote, scream, sin, repent, cry, kneel, pray, bow, rise, stand, look, laugh, cajole, create, confront, confound, walk back, walk forward, circle, hide, and seek. to seek: to embrace the questions, be wary of answers.
... terry tempest williams ...
let your tears come. let them water your soul.
... eileen mayhew ...
women are fabulous.
... emily rose krause pickel ...
love is not love which alters when it alteration finds,
or bends with the remover to remove:
o no! it is an ever-fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken
... shakespeare (sonnet 116) ...
i write entirely to find out what i'm thinking, what i'm looking at, what i see and what it means. what i want and what i fear.
... joan didion ...
the sweetness and generosity and politeness and gentleness and humanity of the french had shown me how lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.
... julia child ...
i shall pass through this world but once. any good therefore that i can do or any kindness that i can show to any human being, let me do it now. let me not defer or neglect it, for i shall not pass this way again.
... gandhi ...
each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
... charles augustin sainte–beuve ...
anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.
... beethoven ...
good manners: the noise you don't make when you're eating soup.
... bennet cerf …
