As I stand there, staring absently at the stirring pot on the wall, I remember Greg’s words all those years ago: No one could create peace for me. Yes, I did the tough work to heal on my own. But in the process I’d missed the finer point. An insular life is just another wall. The realization rushes over me: There can be no peace without community. Real community — people to count on, and who could count on me. Sasha Martin
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  1. Everything depends on the moment the spice hits the pan: whether it sizzles with mouthwatering fragrance or turns to ash. Once, I thought happiness was the sizzle in the pan. But it’s not. Happiness is the spice — that fragile speck, beholden to the heat,...

  2. There are many dreams in a lifetime — dreams that flourish or flounder for reasons much more complex than can be pinned down to any one person or situation.

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