Excerpts . . .
"To begin writing from our pain eventually engenders compassion for our small and groping lives. Out of this broken state there comes a tenderness for the cement below our feet, the dried grass crackling in a terrible wind. We can touch the things around us once thought ugly and see their special detail, the peeling paint and gray of shadows as they are -- simply what they are: not bad, just part of the life around us -- and love this life because it is ours and in the moment there is nothing better. - from Writing Down the Bones, by Natalie Goldberg
