Staying braced can protect us when hardship keeps coming, but the posture often outlasts the threat.

Peace with a hard life doesn’t require calling it fair or forgiving anyone.

A truce can be declared alone, without waiting for an apology or a better chapter.

Her kitchen table had a ring worn into the wood where the teapot always sat. She poured, as she has every time I have visited over the years, and we talked the way we always do: ideas first, life only when the ideas ran out. Over the years, within her stories I learned about many heart-breaking anecdotes from her life.

I came to her work long before I came to her company. Her books taught me a great deal. Our conversations taught me more. What I noticed most, visit after visit,........

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