I think 90% of what/who we are is never really verbally communicated

"I like to write things down-moments, lists, quotes, thoughts. Compulsively sometimes.

I need to gather all the thoughts that are locked up in my head and put them on paper. Will my memory ever fail me? Maybe that's the precaution I'm taking." -AKR

Excerpts from Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life:

-Birthmark

"To look at my birthmark was to remind myself that I was me."

-Thankful:

"I'm thankful for the sun. It just keeps rising and never asks for anything in return.

I'm thankful for 'maybe'."

-Plot of Soil:

"To look at it is to catch my breath."

-"The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now."

-Annie Dillard, The Writing Life