The Tenth Island: Finding Joy, Beauty, and Unexpected Love in the Azores

by Diana Marcum

“Something my father always told me was that the trick to success is to know when you have enough and stop and appreciate it.”

“The knees don’t lie,” she said.

“Here’s to nothing,” he said. “That’s when anything can happen.”

But a friend of mine whose husband died has a theory that there are four chambers in the human heart—so even if one belongs for eternity to someone missing, there is still room for love. I had to smile thinking of my dad’s less poetic version of the sentiment: “A three-legged dog runs plenty fast.”