Alison Gopnik’s Scientist in the Crib
A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those that be sown in it in their times.
Through challenge and difficulty, we learn to see life differently than before.
The day when the fire that we had lit in our minds reaches our hearts, we will start turning every person that we come in contact with into ashes. We become the ghosts that we always feared.
Stand out tall amidst challenges! Dwarf all irrelevant voices.
True love is not a hide and seek game: in true love, both lovers seek each other.
Any day above ground is a good day. Before you complain about anything, be thankful for your life and the things that are still going well.
Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.
Self-care is how you take your power back.
Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...