Grief doesn’t have a face. - Cheryl Strayed

The ultimate dwindling resource in the human arrangement isn’t cheap oil or potable water or even common sense, but mercy.

What’s important is that you make the leap. Jump high and hard with intention and heart.

It felt now as if I'd never known them and I couldn't know them again. It seemed to me that whatever had existed back in the place where I'd grown up was so far away now, impossible to retrieve.