”From time to time, the spirits seek us out because they are in need of human warmth for a little while. That is the time to listen very carefully to what ..
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”The real Aussie girls crimped and permed to get frizzy post-eighties afros, but I was busy begging my mother for hair extensions, or saving up for Soul ..
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”Vulnerability is kind of the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears it’s also the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of ..
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”Poetry is a ruthless muse.” Alice Walker at the Sydney Writers’ Festival, May 2014 This series of essays on belonging is all about me trying to ..
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”Sounds thicken the sensory stew of our lives, and we depend on them to help us interpret, communicate with, and express the world around us.” Diane ..
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”We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn.’’ Nicholas Sparks The Notebook Have you ever seen an army ..
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”Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits.’’ Theodore Zeldin, Conversation: How Talk Can Change Our Lives I ate ants ..
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”I like the ones without the tulips,’’ Steve Jobs on toilet paper in Wired (1996). Maybe I’ve been going about things backwards? A friend ..
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”Only parts of us will ever touch parts of others.’’ Marilyn Monroe, Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Last Sunday I went out to buy ..
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I love European weekend papers. I love the juicy book reviews and profiles and I loved them most when I was in London and filled my basket with The ..
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