"You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves."
—Mary Oliver, Wild Geese
"I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance."
—bell hooks
"You are not required to set yourself on fire to keep other people warm."
—Unknown (popularly attributed)
"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight—and never stop fighting."
—E. E. Cummings
"Be faithful to that which exists within yourself"
—André Gide
"I am rooted, but I flow"
—Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Tinkles had twins yesterday but she wasn’t very happy. She rejected one of them. Hopefully, she will accept it over the next few days.
"The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea"
—Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)
"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks"
—John Muir
My boy Blue
Tinkles
Rosie
"Boundaries are the distance at which I can love you and me simultaneously"
—Prentis Hemphill
