I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you,
and that you will work them,
water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom,
till you yourself burst into bloom!
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
original painting – private collection – Nashville, TN – USA – “Watermelon and Grapes”
watercolor, wax, ricepaper, fabric pipping, sewn • 36″H x 36″W • © Lisa Rivas
Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter. ~Ivor Novello
Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens! …or I shall burst. ~George Farquhar
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