“I used to think truth was eternal, that once I knew, once I saw, it would be with me forever, a constant by which everything else could be measured. I know now that this isn't so, that most truths are inherently unretainable, that we have to work hard all our lives to remember the most basic things. Society is no help. It tells us again and again that we can most be ourselves by acting and looking like someone else...”

― Lucy Grealy, Autobiography of a Face

“We are a link in a chain in making a contribution that goes well beyond our own life. And that’s part of what makes dying tolerable. That’s what makes being a mortal creature tolerable.”

 --  Atul Gawande

 Listen to Atul over at On Being : What Matters in the End and then revisit this one, How Trauma and Resilience Cross Generations

Karin Mamma Andersson

inks

Ink tests from the Toronto Ink Company

no seeing everything at once

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Word for World is Forest. Found via even*cleveland