You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of … - Anne Lamott

If you haven't already, you will lose someone you can't live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and you never completely get over the loss of a deeply beloved person. But this is also good news. The person lives forever, in your broken heart that doesn't seal back up. And you come through, and you learn to dance with the banged-up heart.

"Here are the two best prayers I know: "Help me help me, help me," and "Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Little by little, in telling Sam all these details, I got to see the bigger point of baseball, that it can give us back ourselves. We’re a crowd animal, a highly gregarious, communicative species, but the culture and the age and all the fear that fills our days have put almost everyone into little boxes, each of us all alone. But baseball, if we love it, gives us back our place in the crowd. It restores us.

Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?