Pam

“We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.”
― Ira Glass

“A miscarriage is lonely, painful, and demoralizing almost on a cellular level. When you have one, you will likely mistake it for a personal failure, which it is not. Or a tragedy, which, regardless of how utterly devastating it feels in the moment, it also is not.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Cherish your wilderness.”
― Maxine Kumin

“They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried