" I nest in language. I make my home in stories and let them hold me. Words become wings that enfolds me and hides me from the world. I feel safe among them." {Hannah Kent} A satisfying start to the new year. I've been on a reading binge (yes, more than usual) I've been loving all the time spent snuggled in the library, sipping my tea, comforted by the loving weight of a book in my hands. there is no greater satisfaction than this.

" His love of the transcendent, his ecstatic praise of the vast and exquisite beauty of the world... I want to be wide awake to the divine mystery of the world. To keep my face and heart turned to wonder. This, I think, is success. This is what I want for myself." {Hannah Kent : Always Home, Always Homesick} in the stillness of January amidst the chaos in the world I know that peace and beauty are attainable actually required for a life of hope and wonder. for the acknowledge

" ... softly, reverently... " letting the quietness of winter settle in...

" These are the days in-between. The liminal space that hovers beyond the festivities and ahead of the fresh New Year. A time of long walks, hot coffee, languid lounging. ... everything on pause." the hush is a precious time... that fleeting pause when time bends and magic hovers." {Beth Kempton : Calm Christmas} the liminal space of silence and slow time. letting my soul catch up from the hustle and bustle of the holiday season. a permission to pause... letting the days unfo

" I already have nostalgia for the present. So yes... I'll eat the warm bread/tend to my longing/ buy the flowers/ embarrass myself/over text/ comfort this mortal body/ cry when I'm moved/ drink the extra coffee/hold the cup with both hands/be present with its heat and fall a little more in love with every flickering moment. Because this is it. This soft, primal, imperfect now." {Victoria Erickson} just over here falling a little more in love with every flickering moment. thi

" The holy secret to time spent in quiet... to seek an inner place of hush in which she may know her own heart." {Sarah Clarkson}