Anne Muehlethaler

The past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, & thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. - Virginia Wolf

Witness

Sometimes the mountain
is hidden from me in veils
of cloud, sometimes
I am hidden from the mountain
in veils of inattention, apathy, fatigue,
when I forget or refuse to go
down to the shore or a few yards
up the road, on a clear day,
to reconfirm
that witnessing presence.

— Denise Levertov

Every family is a country with its own set of rules and you don’t know that that’s true until you leave your country and you go: ‘oh, you’re a family and your dad is the one that…’ - Amy Poehler on Conan’s podcast

The tongue can paint what the eyes can't see. - Chinese Proverb