There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house,
ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out at the delphiniums, hearing a burst of laughter from one of my children's rooms - when I feel a wavelike rush of joy. This is my true religion: arbitrary moments of nearly painful happiness for a life I feel privileged to lead
I hadn't realized how much I'd been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to.
You are always in my thoughts. When you were little, I knew your whereabouts at any given moment. Now that you are...off on your own, I still always know where you are, because I keep you in my heart.
You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.
Don't let your habits become handcuffs.
I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep from which I awoke amazingly refreshed, at least until I remembered.
Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked.
I will come back as a little breeze. You will feel me on your face, and you will know that I am still listening. So you can still talk to me.
Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree.
Anything we have, we are only borrowing. Anything. Any time.