I am pieces of all the places I have been,

and the people I have loved and

then stitched together by songs,

book quotes, adventure, late night

conversations, moonlight and

the smell of coffee.

~Brooke Hampton

how to cope when nothing’s moving…

inquiry for today~ fast track to realigning with simple pleasures….

bright eyes

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that,

and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you

with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are hereon earth.

You are here to risk your heart. You are hereto be swallowed up.

And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt or death brushes near,

let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps,

wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.

~Louise Erdrich