Tabitha

“On this day of each year, Humanity wakes with the awakening of Spring, and stands crying below the suffering Nazarene” — Kahlil Gibran

“But rationalizing what God does involves the risk of losing its difficulty and otherness to human expectations. His great forgiveness of the first criminal offends people’s sense of justice, unless they can find a way to read vengefulness into the tale. We are instead to learn that mercy is nearer than justice to Godliness, and that mercy can

“Courage is fear that has said its prayers.”

— Anne Lamott, Somehow (133)

“A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it. In other words, the boat I can feel so lonely in actually holds us all.”

Mary Karr in the Introduction to The Liars’ Club 10 year anniversary edition

“After 9/11, people were afraid that we were going to live in an America where the local grocery stores were constantly getting bombed and we had to fight the terrorists in the streets, where nothing would ever be the same. They were afraid, but there was such yearning in that fear. I think AI hype comes from the same place.”

— Freddie DeBoer on