Hope

A matter of time, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

When hope is not pinned

wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation,

it sometimes floats forth and opens.

Anne Lamott, Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

Writer

Writing tools, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


To be a writer is to acknowledge the secret wounds that we carry inside us, the wounds so secret that we ourselves are barely aware of them, and to patiently explore them, know them, illuminate them, to won those pains and wounds, and to make them a conscious part of our spirits and our writing.

Orhan Pamuk, My Father's Suitcase