“A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.”Joan Didion, White Album I claim hard, remember ob...

“We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. As we were. As we are no longer. As we will...

"I was one of those children who tended to perceive the world in terms of things read about it. I began with a literary idea of experience, and I still don’t know where all the lies are. For example, it may not be true that people who try to fly al...

Now I become myself./It's taken time, many years and places./I have been dissolved and shaken,/Worn other people's faces . . . May Sarton Read Weekly Wide Awake: Parker Palmer here Subscribe to Weekly-Wide Awake...