On Almost Beginning
One sits and reads, and the hours pass, and this passing seems not loss but a kind of staying. - adapted from Virginia Woolf’s notebooks The library was not a building but a condition sustained by attention.
Give All
in conversation with “ Give All to Love ” by Ralph Waldo Emerson Give all - not because it will return, not because it promises shelter, but because love, once named, will not accept remainder.
And...
And is the word I use when the truth won’t fit cleanly. Family and friends. I needed both. I still do.
