my delicious loose ends
“Soul and soil are not separate. Neither are wind and spirit, nor water and tears.” —Terry Tempest Williams
“And yet I raise my hands aloft to God, that I might be held by God, just like a feather which has no weight from its own strength and lets itself be carried by the wind.” —Hildegard of Bingen, The Book of Divine Works
If the landscape reveals one certainty, it is that the extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation. —Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
“Every rain cloud, however fleeting, leaves its mark, not only on trees and flowers whose pulses are quickened and on the replenished streams and lakes, but also on the rocks are its marks engraved whether we can see them or not.” —John Muir, My…