"Every one of us

is called upon, probaly many times to start a new life.
A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a job...
And onward full tilt we go,
pitched and wrecked and absurdly
resolute, driven in spite of
everything to make good on a new shore. To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct...Crying out: High tide!
Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take
this life for what it is."














-Barbara Kingsoliver,
from Hight Tide in Tucson