P Kellach Waddle

“The ancient Chinese had a practice of embellishing the cracked parts of valued possessions with gold leaf, which says: We dishonor it if we pretend that it hadn’t gotten broken. It says: We value this enough to repair it. So it is not denial or a cover-up. It is the opposite, an adornment of the break with gold leaf, which draws the cracks into greater prominence. The gold leaf becomes part of its beauty. Somehow the aesthetic of its having been cracked but still being here, brought back not to baseline but restored, brings increase.”
― Anne Lamott, Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

“Hallelujah that in spite of it all, there is love, there is singing, nature, laughing, mercy.”
― Anne Lamott, Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

“To be alive at all is to have scars.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“Kindness toward others and radical kindness to ourselves buy us a shot at a warm and generous heart, which is the greatest prize of all. Do you want this, or do you want to be right? Well, can I get back to you on that? I”
― Anne Lamott, Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy