Tricia

“These Serviceberries were not coerced, and their carbon footprint is nothing. Maybe that's why they taste so good - they come only this time of year - these ephemeral sips of summer, without the aftertaste of harm.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

“For a while I could not remember some word
I was in need of,
and I was bereaved and said: where are you,
beloved friend?”
― Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

“It is a danger to become nothing. You hope no one will look, and so one day when you go to find yourself, only dust remains, ground down to nothing from sheer neglect.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

“Defining the Problem

I can't forgive you. Even if I could,
You wouldn't pardon me for seeing through you.
And yet I cannot cure myself of love
For what I thought you were before I knew you.”
― Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns