Jenny Noble Anderson Biography & Quotes

“Grown-ups now, we occupy our concrete paths, little griefs buzzing around our ears like mosquitos. We swat them away. We turn our heads, swallowing our sadness whole.”

Grief Sadness Anxiety Resilience Denial Hardship Funeral Adulthood Numbing

Book:But Still She Flies: Poems and Paintings

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“You stepped in rhythm to her breaths. Strolling through seasons— winter's whites, the pink nectars of spring, summer's ripest green, and the speckled reds of fall, inviting impermanence into us all.”

Death Fall Life Quotes Change Summer Spring Seasons Winter Impermanence Seasons Of Life

Book:But Still She Flies: Poems and Paintings

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“My long smooth neck had felt only kisses and the warmth of winter scarves. Your neck was bleeding, raw, and could scarecely endure a swallow, a breath, the bandage I'd wrapped clumsily around your lifetime of injuries.”

Love Care Pain Suicide Help Helplessness

Book:But Still She Flies: Poems and Paintings

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“I've known a lot of hummingbirds. I used to be one too. But then I grew. An ostrich now, I listen. I wait. Grounded (but quick when I need to be). I've still got that sprint in me.”

Wisdom Growth Efficiency Birds Busyness Hummingbird

Author:Jenny Noble Anderson

“Maybe one day you'll see me latched barkside to that tree, teasing my way out of the skin I'm in until I plunk into the dirt. Until I slither then fly. Shiny and high. Leaving only an effigy— a hollowed-out replica behind.”

Growth Nature Development Transformation New Beginnings Renewal Beginnings Snake Insect Cicada

Book:But Still She Flies: Poems and Paintings

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“everything widens and withers, opens and closes, expands and contracts— like a tulip like an ice cream shop like a heart.”

Love Life Wisdom Growth Expansion Impermanence

Book:But Still She Flies: Poems and Paintings

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“when we were birds, we knew how to ride the wind's whims, to tire ourselves with flight, to sleep at night like stones.”

Freedom Childhood Youth Innocence Exploration Idealism Birds Adventure Fiction Innocence Lost

Book:But Still She Flies: Poems and Paintings

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“With your weathered feathers, sunken breast and chipped beak, you can exit now. Spread the wire with your wings and sing the sweet melody that still wriggles in your throat, as you soar out the window that was always there.”

Freedom Flight Soar Cages Birds Fly Self Imprisonment Escape Oneself

Book:But Still She Flies: Poems and Paintings

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“Sip a cup of tea slowly and slide into a sleep that carries you back to those softer days when I cradled you in the curves of my consistency.”

Love Care Mother Hope Attention Family Daughter Nurture Caregiving Instructions

Book:But Still She Flies: Poems and Paintings

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“With winged companions by my side, I will stretch. I will soar. I will fly.”

Friendship Support Bird Loyalty Devotion Help Support Network

Book:But Still She Flies: Poems and Paintings

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“Yes, Dad— I liked that call we had yesterday. It carried me hundreds of miles away to a creek bed in Tennessee. To those days when we knew just what to do with the fragile things. Those days when your pick was steady.”

Father Memories Letting Go Daughter Nostalgia Impermanence Dig Fossil Parkinson S Disease

Book:But Still She Flies: Poems and Paintings

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“And one day, these outsides will be left behind, cicada-like, as the contents rise and fly. You're certain to see more of me—that knobby tree, that wave, that wing.”

Love Death Nature Goodbye Reincarnation Rebirth Impermanence

Book:But Still She Flies: Poems and Paintings

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“i pry myself from the bed, pull my skin up from the floor and hook it loosely on my shoulder blades. i'm not hopeful yet. but there's something about being upright. (opening the blinds just a tad) that allows a whisper to take root.”

Light Hope Depression Recovery Coping

Author:Jenny Noble Anderson

“We may have been flawless then— but look at us now. Look how we shine. Look at the map we've made in these fractures— in all the places where the world got its hands on us.”

Love Wisdom Pain Growth Relationships Marriage Resilience Reconciliation Breakups Time Passing

Book:But Still She Flies: Poems and Paintings

Source: But Still She Flies: Poems and Paintings

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