“Oh it is appalling what the body can endure. Its will to live, despite such damage. Our hearts lacking the rabbit’s rare capacity to simply stop and spare us from suffering.” SufferingSurvival Book:The Cure for Sleep Source: The Cure for Sleep
“And so I will try and write a book of my own, inch by inch, that might reach beyond my narrow self and add to the ration of courage that stories are for us all. To share this learning I have, which was only accidental at first: that more of us might find more and many little ways to step out from our circles of safe belonging, to show and share what we know, and surprise interest from others who encounter us. To be people who simply sit on park benches, open and noticing, so that a lonely person might feel able to risk a smile, then take a seat and speak. To spend even a few of our spare hours in this way, being calling cards and quiet invitations.” LonelinessConnectionService Book:The Cure for Sleep Source: The Cure for Sleep
“I was in love with myself, there by the water, but not like Narcissus, unheeding of others. Instead, feeling so at home in my body freed my attention to turn outwards, fully and forever. We are taught so often that love of self is shameful and should be curbed, but I believe now insecurity makes in us a distracting background noise that drowns out the precious here and now.” Self LoveSelf Acceptance Book:The Cure for Sleep Source: The Cure for Sleep
“And what a thing a book is! How far it can travel, like a seed that carries on a wing or the wind to germinate in another time and place.” ReadingBooksReading For Life Book:The Cure for Sleep Source: The Cure for Sleep
“Whimsy. Fun. Instinct. Lightness. How some of the best – and worst – decisions of a life are made. Walking over a threshold and seeing a stranger, a set of rooms, and emptying one’s head, one’s pockets. Taking a hand, a key. Exchanging the milk cow for the magic beans. Thinking not of cost or profit. Refusing the call of future possibilities that will fall away when choosing this place, that person. The way it is done: from smell, sound, stomach; all the senses coming together to assay the moment.” ChoicesDecisions Book:The Cure for Sleep Source: The Cure for Sleep
“What we have waited for too long, or possessed only in secret, or had for too short a while: how hard it is to walk through our days with a loss not apparent. To have survived endings that had no ceremony and called forth no condolences. That were bereft even of a grave or death certificate. Sadness without sign or symbol.” MourningGrief And LossRituals Book:The Cure for Sleep Source: The Cure for Sleep