I know that I want to be someone who welcomes transition. Someone who meets discomfort and fear with compassion. Someone who is intentional.

I love how this art community is recognizing art as protest, not simply precious. How they’re focusing on the activism vs. vandalism.

The picture of my weak naiveté sickened me. I felt I would’ve been a coward.

I know about magic, for the wizardry of my life is co-created by many things I’m trying to pay attention to.

The No. 1 regret of the dying: “I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.”

Did Vincent van Gogh die from a broken heart? And how did he die? Was he alone?

She [Tara Mohr] calls out women (< me cough >) for the ways we stall taking the next steps needed to fulfill our vision of meaningfulness.

It’s possible that right now mind-blowing solutions to our stink-y-est problems are already in the works.

It was time to mark out new territory for the Land of Joan.

Letters are perhaps the closest one can get to another’s thoughts. Private, intimate, genuine, exposed.

In one year’s time I will keep a promise I made to myself decades ago.

Your future self is calling you now.

f I could talk to my younger self, I would tell her not to jump in with both feet so fast—get a bigger picture on writing!

It’s been five years since I first began work on this novel.

This phrase gives you and me equal shares of grace to acknowledge, “Hey, I’m different now. I’ve changed.”

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“If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.” — Emile Zola To live out loud! As in, not...