“Joy is an act of defiance,’ said the Khan. ‘With joy, we win, even if we lose. To have lived well is a victory all its own, for we all die. Death is unimportant to the laughing warrior. A poet makes tragedy glorious. That is why.”  ― ...

The thing no one ever tells you about joy is that it has very little real pleasure in it. — Zadie Smith Joy is complicated. It is easy to miss amid scurrying, forget amid noise, and neglect amid fear. It can be invisible in the heaviness of cru...

On why I still write them, how to find words during these times , and their place in the order of things. Growing up, our family received a lot of Holiday letters. We would put them in a wooden reindeer built to display the cards during the Holida...

with gratitude to Beth Kempton Plenty We are enough. We have enough. Enough is enough. We build and create. We imagine and burst. We steel and move. We dance and savor. We cherish and live big. We chirp and sing. We ope...