root words

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.* Rudyard Kipling *

live with intention. 
walk to the edge.
listen hard. 
practice wellness. 
laugh. 
choose with no regret.
continue to learn.
appreciate your friends.
do what you love.
live as if this is all there is.
*mary anne radmacher*


We are what we imagine ourselves to be.
* N. Scott Momaday *

All acts of kindness are lights in the war for justice.
* Joy Harjo *

I beg you…to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without ever noticing it, live your way into the answer…
* Rainer Maria Rilke *

we write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.
* anais nin *

I don't know where it all begins
And I don't know where it all will end
We're better off for all that we let in.
* All That We Let In, by Indigo Girls *