"Facing my mortality has revealed how much of my life I spent curating myself into smallness. Living now has become my spiritual practice, my rebellion."

"There is nothing you can say that will solve it. But, there is much you can say that will keep someone company inside of it."

"I wept from the strangeness of return. From the terror of starting anew. From the defiant choice to love this life anyway."

"I'm learning to stop grasping for control and lean back into complete free fall."

"I am not dying from this. But it's given me some peace to think that we are all on a path toward death, that we build beautiful lives that dissolve into beautiful nothingness."

"I want to create a place where mortality and joy sit side by side."

"Ultimately, there is no one on the planet who can love me better than I can love myself."

"Every day, I return to this moment, wrestling with the humbling truth that binds us together - both small and scared, both fighting fiercely against the tide."

"I hope I go like the fig, sweet and full, bursting at the seam, feeding whatever comes next."

"I dream the sleep that sleeps in me. The lie lies still. Awake within. Who dreams this dream?"