“Oh, there must be a little bit of air, a little bit of happiness, but chiefly to let the form be felt, to make the lines of the silhouette speak. But let the whole be sombre.”

Chance doesn’t deal happiness with an even hand — some lives are more weighed down by sorrow than others. It can be easy, and misguided, to romanticize suffering ...........Read more 

“Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, / you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.”  Read More

Maya Angelou (1928-2014) American writer, poet, singer, and civil rights activist.

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