"Older now, you find holiness
in anything that continues."
- Naomi Shihab Nye

I did not survive
to be untouched.
-Mark Nepo

"Last night, as I was sleeping,
I dreamt - marvelous error! -
that I had a beehive
here inside my heart.
And the golden bees
were making white combs
and sweet honey
from my old failures."
- Antonio Machado

"Seeking life everywhere, I found it in the burn of my lungs." - Mark Nepo