“Time heals what reason cannot.”~ Seneca ~ Somebody hurt you. Maybe a long time ago. Maybe last week. Maybe you’re still not sure what exactly happened — just that something in you went sideways and hasn’t quite come back yet. You’ve talked about it. Thought about it. Looked at it from every angle. Read the…

“Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.”~ Bertrand Russell ~ You don’t have to build a haven out of wood and nails. Sometimes it’s just a person. Someone whose voice on the other end of the phone makes the noise outside quiet down for a minute. I’ve had a few of those…

“He who is in harmony with Nature hits the mark without effort and apprehends the truth without thinking.”~Confucius (paraphrase, Doctrine of the Mean)~ Some things you can’t force. You can study a river for years and still not understand it the way you do standing at its edge for five quiet minutes. Harmony isn’t something…

“A tree grows tall because it has strong and solid roots.”~ Chinese Proverb ~ Everything’s pulling at you today — the notifications, the noise, six directions at once wanting an answer right now. Before anything can grow up, it has to grow down first. Nobody sees the roots. They just see the tree standing tall,…

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.”~Calvin Coolidge~ There’s a tree that grows sideways out of a crack in solid rock. No good soil, barely any water, wind hitting it every single day. By all logic it shouldn’t be there. But it just kept growing toward the light, a little at a…