Some people collect stamps, coins, or comic books. I collect words. I carry them along on my journey, considering their meanings and letting them shape my days.
A blog about words, meaning-making, and impact.
"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone... . The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials." - Lin Yutang
"I am learning something about the single moment, how rife with potential it is, how truly loud its tick." - Lauren Slater in her essay "Black Swans"
"When she came to write her story, she would wonder exactly when the books and the words started to mean not just something but everything." - Markus Zusak, The Book Theif, 30
"It's not that I need easy right now, I just can't have so hard." - Eat Pray Love
"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other wings." - Hodding Carter
"Our whole life is a meditation of our last decision - the only decision that matters." From Thoughts in Solitude by Thomas Merton
Also,
"Hence the things that we love tell us what we are." (22)
