The heart is a river. The act of writing is the moving water that holds the banks apart, … - Helen Humphreys

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Youth is when you think you'll live forever. Old age is when you wonder how you've lived so long.

Helen Humphreys

The heart is a river. The act of writing is the moving water that holds the banks apart, keeps the muscle of words flexing so that the reader can be carried along by this movement. To be given space and the chance to leave one's earthly world. Is there any greater freedom than this?

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This is what I know about love, That it is tested every day, and what is not renewed is lost. One chooses either to care more or to care less. Once the choice is to care less, then there is no stopping the momentum of goodbye. Each loved thing slips away. There is no stopping it.

Away, Choices, Goodbye, Lost, Lost Ones, Thing

Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read something you are stopped, the moment is stayed, you can sometimes be there more fully than you can in your real life.

Company, Maybe, Reading, Real, Stopped, Way

Grief moves us like love. Grief is love, I suppose. Love as a backwards glance.

Glance, Grief, Like, Like Love, Moving, Suppose

The novels are always morphing into something else now, some kind of hybrid, more of a ground that isn't so easily specified. I suppose you could call it creative non-fiction, and rather focused on the natural world, which is what I'm most interested in reading these days. At least that would be the closest thing, but my books also include some fiction, so they're difficult to pinpoint.

Book, Creative, Easily, Interested, Pinpoint, Reading

Every story is a story about death. But perhaps, if we are lucky, our story about death is also a story about love.

Ifs, Love, Lucky, Stories, Story