Amy Colbert

A person is not a potted plant of predetermined personality but a garden abloom with the consequences of chance and choice that have made them who they are, resting upon an immense seed vault of dormant potentialities. At any given moment, any seed can sprout — whether by conscious cultivation or the tectonic tilling of some great upheaval or the c

What is necessary in grief is often the most basic and the most difficult: consistency of presence. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/26/opinion/food-grief-joan-nathan.html

I’m endlessly interested in what happens when someone revisits a place that nurtured them once they’ve been changed by someplace else (I also wrote a novel about this very thing). Tembe Denton-Hurst

I used these definitions, drawn in part from Vivian Gornick’s The Situation And The Story. The personal essay was the attempt to make sense of a topic using experiences and research, sometimes taken from life experience and sometimes not. The memoir was the attempt to understand the self in relationship to a time period or a topic generated out of

“Interdependence is a fundamental law of nature. Even tiny insects survive by cooperating with each other. Our survival is so dependent on the help of others that a need for love lies at the very core of our existence.” Dalai Lama IVX

It is about befriending our pain, our grief, our story, even—and maybe especially—the stories we never asked for, didn’t want, and would never wish on anyone. https://open.substack.com/pub/lorefergusonwilbert/p/the-understory-release-week-starts?r=10iq5d&utm_medium=ios