“First, the air is blue, and then it is bluer and green and then black. I am blacking out, and yet my mask is powerful.“ -Adrienne Rich
“Only later, this other, same-same-again song, a bird I could not see but heard when I walked from the house to the studio, studio to the house, its three notes repeated like a child’s up and down on a trampoline looping.” -Laura Donnelly
“But happiness floats. It doesn’t need you to hold it down. It doesn’t need anything. Happiness lands on the roof of the next house, singing, and disappears when it wants to. You are happy either way. Even the fact that you once lived in a peaceful tree house and now live over a quarry of noise and dust cannot make you unhappy.” -Naomi Shihab Ny