Marissa

“the you you are with others is not you. To be lonesome is to be who you most fully are.”
― Charles Frazier, Varina

“A peace lover is someone who enjoys the absence of conflict, but a peacemaker is someone who is proactively engaged in works of reconciliation in every sphere of life, from the personal to the global. That”
― Ian Morgan Cron, Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim’s Tale

“There’s no dishonor in having a job. What is dishonorable is scaring away your creativity by demanding that it pay for your entire existence.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“Civilization balances always on a keen and precarious point, a showman spinning a fine Spode dinner plate on a long dowel slender as a stem of hay. A puff of breath, a moment’s lost attention, and it’s all gone, crashed to ruination, shards in the dirt. Then mankind retreats to the caves, leaving little behind but obelisks weathering to nubs like broken teeth, dissolving to beach sand.”
― Charles Frazier, Varina