“If you have complicated grain, if you’re complicated, you need extremely sharp tools and extremely skilled craftspeople…. You need to understand the sharpening as a part of the process, not an interruption of the process.”...

“Here’s what I want to give you. I want to give you the low slant of light as fall creeps in. I want to give you a double handful of freshly picked raspberries too soft...

“When it comes time for us to harvest, when the air and the sun and the water and the sky all shift in the direction of fall- it is also time to turn toward rest.”...

“We’re going to build connections, we’re going to build community. We’re going to build common care into the fabric of our lives. And I know this sounds like more work. But this is the nourishment...

“My most effective habit building behavior is to build it around pleasure. I have to tap into that future pleasure, that sensation of possibility of pleasure, in order to build the habit.” On building habits...

“Reminders that I have choices have saved my life, literally and figuratively, so many times. You have choices. Remember, always, that you have choices.” Our environments are full of urgency, real and manufactured. The manufactured...

“I learned when I was a child that it was better to be lichen. It was better to be hardy and durable and scrappy, and a little rough. It was better to look inedible, lest...

“There’s something about trust, about being able to trust that something or someone will just be there, that we have lost in this whirlwind of creation and destruction and absorption of companies. It’s like we’re...

“If the praise is gonna feel genuine, then the people praising us have to know us well enough to praise us for something that is genuinely ours.” On praise- our need for it (even when...

“What does it mean to be made visible to people who don’t understand the context from which we come? What of our history is important enough to tell and retell? Sometimes telling and retelling those...