Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair

We, too, are shadow and light. We are not supposed to know this, or be all these different facets of humanity, bright and dark. We are raised to be bright and shiny, but there is meaning in the acceptance of our dusky and dappled side, and also in defiance.

Under the moonlight, you can make your shadow enormous. You feel both tiny and big.

these kids, like all decent humans, will spend some of their lives swimming in sadness.

The search for meaning will fill you with a sense of meaning. Otherwise life passes by in about seven weeks, and if you are not paying attention and savoring it as it unfurls, you will wake up one day in deep regret. It’s much better to wake up now in deep regret, desperate not to waste more of your life obsessing and striving for meaningless crap.

Becoming famous is of momentary reward, and then stressfully unimportant, like winning the set of steak knives in Glengarry Glen Ross.

Discipline, I have learned, leads to freedom, and there is meaning in freedom. If

You have to keep taking the next necessary stitch, and the next one, and the next. Without stitches, you just have rags. And we are not rags.

I love ritual and repetition. Without them, I would be a balloon with a slow leak. The

Here’s the true secret of life: We mostly do everything over and over.