Writing’s a lot like cooking. Sometimes the cake won’t rise, no matter what you do, and every now and again the cake tastes better than you

Writing’s a lot like cooking. Sometimes the cake won’t rise, no matter what you do, and every now and again the cake tastes better than you ever could have dreamed it would.

–
Neil Gaiman,

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

When I rise uplet me rise up joyfullike a bird.When I falllet me fall without regretlike a leaf. – Wendell

When I rise up
let me rise up joyful
like a bird.

When I fall
let me fall without regret
like a leaf.

–
Wendell Berry

More than just someone to lay down with, is a spirit to pray up with. – T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual

More than just someone to lay down with, is a spirit to pray up with.

–
T.F. Hodge,

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with quot;The Divine Presencequot;