I can't for the life of me read much when stressed or distracted. I feel as if my mind floating, or rather I'm walking outside on a very rainy and windy day. I know my destination but I have no desire to get there and just want to turn around, go home and crawl under the covers. Can you relate? I am...

“Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?”― David Baldacci, The Camel Club I am generally an on the go reader. I squeeze in a page or even a paragraph whenever I am waiting for something or someone. The quiet habits that prepare me to read when I find the 10+ minute bursts...

"Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing, there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about. What you seek, is seeking you." - Rumi Is it possible that sometimes, even with our best intentions put forward, we seek the wrong thing...

"I shall pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." - Stephen Grellet I keep reading and re-reading this quote. To process it, to compre...

“We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.”― A Grief Observe...