Nightfall in the Garden of Deep Time
Writing is a process in which we discover what lives in us. The writing itself reveals to us what is alive in us.
Tracy Higley • Nightfall in the Garden of Deep Time
“So, you are a Storyteller? What is your story wanting to say?”
Tracy Higley • Nightfall in the Garden of Deep Time
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. ~ C.S. Lewis
Tracy Higley • Nightfall in the Garden of Deep Time
The artist is someone who is full of questions, who cries them out in great angst, who discovers rainbow answers in the darkness, and then rushes to canvas or paper. ~ Madeleine L’Engle
Tracy Higley • Nightfall in the Garden of Deep Time
“They shamed you. For being yourself.”
Tracy Higley • Nightfall in the Garden of Deep Time
The truest I can say is that I cry for wholeness. I cry for a person or a place or a sense of being which I know by now can be called nothing better than home.
Tracy Higley • Nightfall in the Garden of Deep Time
My assumption is that the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all. ~ Frederick Buechner
Tracy Higley • Nightfall in the Garden of Deep Time
“The world needs more beauty than the Met and Carnegie Hall can provide—much, much more. It needs beauty and creativity on every fireplace mantel, over every basket of chips and salsa. And the largely unsung heroes who provide those things are heroes indeed.” He smiles. “That’s beautiful, Kelsey. You should be a writer.”
Tracy Higley • Nightfall in the Garden of Deep Time
Who am I if I continue to deny this part of myself? This need to create, to make, to express. If I save the bookshop but lose myself in the process, what will I have left?