“...the nostalgia for things that weren't yet lost.”

“Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather the learned sympathy towards the pain of others.”

“What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.”

“The saddest thing that can happen to a person is to find out their memories are lies.”

“Remembering tires a person out. this is something they don't teach us. Exercising one's memory is an exhausting activity. It draws our energy and wears down our muscles.”

“There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken.”

“Understanding the Way of Story as a sacred pattern and a living event. Story can reveal a spiritual path and or the way to healing. Stories become the foundation of health, peacebuilding and vision...”

“Stories nurture our connection to place and to each other. They show us where we have been and where we can go. They remind us of how to be human, how to live alongside the other lives that animate...”

“One afternoon as I just gazed at the topmost branches of those immensely tall trees I began to notice that the uppermost twigs and leaves were lyrical happy dancers glad that they had been apportio...”