"What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives."

— Tales From Earthsea: Dragonfly, by Ursula Le Guin

"Each day I pray into the silence. I pray to all of them. All of them who are not here. Into this emptiness, I pour all my desire and want and need, and in time this absence becomes potent and alive and activated with a promise. This promise that sits inside the silence is beauty enough. This promise, right now, is amazement enough. This promise, right now, is God enough. This promise, right now, is as much as we can bear.

Love, Nick"