“You could not help but feel your specklike existence among the immensity of the mountain,…”

“Be ready. Be seated. See what courage sounds like. See how brave it is to reveal yourself…”

“Severe illness wasn’t life-altering, it was life-shattering. It felt less like an…”

“I would have to learn to live in a different way, seeing death as an imposing itinerant…”