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An angular scrawl was all that was left of her beautiful curling signature, but it was soon recognized and loved all over Haarlem.
John Sherrill • The Hiding Place
“The world will change,” she said. “It always does. We are all empty, but this changing is what saves us.
Thomas Olde Heuvelt • The Apex Book of World SF
On Being • Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows — ‘What a world you’ve got inside you.’ | The On Being Project
To connect with him again was a gentle affirmation of this ministry, in which I try to be a person of love, putting flesh on faith. It revealed how this ministry of presence extends through time and space: on the streets in another city ten years ago, through humdrum prison correspondence, by means of the occasional long-distance phone call, and no
... See moreGary Smith • Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor
won’t let go of the Tigger inside me. I just can’t see the upside in becoming Eeyore. Someone asked me what I want on my tombstone. I replied: “Randy Pausch: He Lived Thirty Years After a Terminal Diagnosis.”
Jeffrey Zaslow • The Last Lecture
For the living there is rending loss at each opening of the eye, each augenblick, as a muskrat dives, a heron takes alarm, a leaf floats spinning away. There is death in the pot for the living’s food, fly-blown meat, muddy salt, and plucked herbs bitter as squill. If you can get it. How many people have prayed for their daily bread and famished? Th
... See moreAnnie Dillard • Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
“Where do you think he is?” “Where who is?” “I mean with Antarctica and the lizards and all that. Where does somebody like Paul go when they’re done using his energy?” “Ha! My baby’s with God.” She looked at him as though willing him to believe her, as though his believing would confirm its truth. He turned his face toward the rusted power plant. “
... See moreOcean Vuong • The Emperor of Gladness: Oprah's Book Club: A Novel
from Garden Maker by Christie Purifoy
Tracy Higley • Nightfall in the Garden of Deep Time
her quiet creed: “Our faith might cause our light to shine on some other heart which as yet had no light of its own.”