Flecks and nuggets of gold

"How come you can hear a chord, and then another chord, and then your heart breaks open?"
a. lamott

"The thing about light is that it really isn't yours; it's what you gather and shine back. And it gets more power from reflectiveness; if you sit still and take it in, it fills your cup, and then you can give it off yourself. So I sat still."
a. lamott

"Baby? Sometimes deliverance is as cool as the air in a redwood grove."

"I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after."
Wallace Stevens