Status Updates From Another Path

If I learn to accept the changes that come, but Center my spirit in what is eternal, I shall Weather any number of storms. What never changes is love, and the meaning I give to it. It is the sun. It is beautiful at sunrise and at sunset as well as at high noon. It endures. Storms may obscure it, but the sun is still there.

I picked up this book totally by accident while pulling an adjacent book for a patron and was totally arrested by the very first page:

"Someone walked this way before, and you, in turn, leave footprints for another who will soon stumble this very way. At times, someone may be close enough to reach out a hand and to say, 'There's a bad spot here.'"

also it's about longtime lady companions, so.