The Bodega at the End of the Internet

We shape clay into a pot,

but it is the emptiness inside

that holds whatever we want.

Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways.

Never feel shame for trying and failing for he who has never failed is he who has never tried.

When I remove the extraneous, it gives me a chance to savor what’s left. The flavors can really shine.

And my experience of this is that life is really revealed when I have less in front of me.

(Matthew 25:40)

The King will reply, “Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.”

“The quickest way to learn about a new place is to know what it dreams of.