“She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short.”
“If you hold on to the handle, she said, it’s easier to maintain the illusion of control. But it’s more fun if you just let the wind carry you.”
“They came to sit & dangle their feet off the edge of the world & after awhile they forgot everything but the good & true things they would do someday.”
“I sometimes wake in the early morning & listen to the soft breathing of my children & I think to myself, this is one thing I will never regret & I carry that quiet with me all day long.”
“There are things you do because they feel right & they may make no sense & they may make no money & it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other & to eat each other’s cooking & say it was good.”
– from Brian Andreas, StoryPeople
these are great, Liz. Whenever I’m in Decorah, I seem to spend quite a bit of time just reading through the StoryPeople prints in one of the stores downtown. One I have on my wall that I love is, “We had gone far enough together to easily listen in the quiet spaces.”
Thanks for posting these!