“I wonder why love is so often equated with joy when it is everything else as well. Devastation, balm, obsession, granting and receiving excessive value, and losing it again. It is recognition, often of what you are not but might be. It sears and it heals. It is beyond pity and above law. It can seem like truth.” WellsSeemsMightLawJoyValuesLove IsWonderLosingHealPityObsessionRecognitionReceivingDevastationSears Book:Measure of My Days Source: Measure of My Days
“In very truth the days are almost free, and if it is another way of saying that our lives are empty, well -- there are days when emptiness is spacious, and non-existence elevating . . .” IfsWayWellsExistenceOur LivesEmptyEmptinessAnother WayElevatingNon Existence Author:Florida Scott-Maxwell
“The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.” HumansWellsEnoughAgeHuman BeingsHonestBalanceGayTasksBraveryBraveOld AgeCrucialSentient Beings Book:Measure of My Days Source: Measure of My Days