ANN GOSSLIN

“There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship’s, smooths and contains the rocker. It’s an inside kind–wrapped tight like skin.”

“Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind.”

“Make up a story … For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light.”

— Toni Morrison, RIP (1931 – 2019)

August is a month for dreaming, not doing … of lazing away the long afternoons, and basking in the fullness of summer twilight.

“We need the tonic of wildness …

At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable.

We can never have enough of nature.”

— Henry David Thoreau

August is a month for travelling … and for reading and dreaming and enjoying all the pleasures of summer.

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world.“

— Freya Stark

“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.”

— Augustine of Hippo

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

— Marcel Proust