Category Archives: A Rite of Passage

“Should you shield the valleys from the windstorms, you would never see the beauty of their canyons.”

- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
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A Quote from Joyce Maynard About the Pain of Miscarriage

Plus a beautiful handmade heart from SevenPonds
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“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”

- Anne Lamott
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“What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.”

- The last words of Blackfoot Chief Crowfoot, of the Siksika First Nation in Canada
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“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”

- Abraham Lincoln
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“There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.”

- Annie Dillard
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