“There is silence, only the pitter-patter of rain hitting the skylight above my bed. Do I roll over and fall back asleep or get up? This is always the dilemma. Long ago I lived for such rainy days, when I would make myself a cup of cocoa, climb back into bed, snuggle under the comforter, and just listem to the storm outside. Perhaps I would benefit from doing the same today. Recently, when I sought council from a minister friends, she affirmed my conclusion that I was stuck. "You're in the dessert," she said, "and you're parched, but not dried out." As she talked, I pictured myself sitting on a stump in the middle of a vast wasteland, surrounded by nothing save miles of adobe-colored, hardened soil, with no escape route insight. "You've got not alternative but to simply sit still and listen. In time you'll hear the answers.”
Source: A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman
“...but just four years later, in June 1977, I was to find a pair of Buff-collared Nightjars on territory in the lower canyon...
By the time that happened, the Tuscon Five would be only a memory. Ironically, it was I, the transient, who was the only one to wind up living in Tuscon later. The other four scattered to the four different states, and after that May of 1973, never again would all five of us get together. But the brief life span of our little gang was a golden time - a time of discovery and wonder, a time when so many of the birds were still elusive and mysterious to us, a time that would never come again.”
Source: Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
“I'll be taking you out for coffee later this week, and you can give me all the details. In the meantime, I'll commence hating him just a little, in case I need material to seed hating him a lot.”
Source: The Echo Wife
“Whether you recognize it or not, you tend to become like those you surround yourself with.
Choose wisely!”
Source: Ageless Wisdom: A Treasury of Quotes to Motivate & Inspire
“We can listen to friends and strangers until the sun goes down, but we can never know someone's full story without going through the world in their bodies.”
Source: Infinity Reaper
“Friends, like flowers, make life more beautiful.”
“You know those people you meet who just feel safe? They radiate certainty and belonging, like everything will be okay for them, because they know how to make things okay. If you’re lucky enough to spend a day with them they will go on with their lives and let you be a tourist in there. They make each moment their own, in small ways, like having preferences about the music, the colours, the smells, the direction, the order of things. And they will talk about their lives in a way that doesn’t leave any space for questioning. It’s not like … hello, this is my life, do you think it’s okay? Like I do … It’s more like: “Hey, this is my life! It’s nice, isn’t it? Now show me yours!”
Source: He loved me some days. I'm sure he did: 99 essays on growth through loss
“How I missed the sound of rain, like the voice of an old friend.”
“Everyone in my life taught me to swim in the ocean of myself.”
Source: Send Me Their Souls
“Il legame che unisce la tua vera famiglia non è quello del sangue, ma quello del rispetto e della gioia per le reciproche vite. Di rado gli appartenenti ad una famiglia crescono sotto lo stesso tetto.”
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah