"What if joy is not only entangled with pain, or suffering, or sorrow, but is also what emerges from how we care for each other through those things? What if joy, instead of refuge or relief from heartbreak, is what effloresces from us as we help each other carry our heartbreaks?" -Ross Gay
"From the forest to my own fragility, I have been shown that love is like mycelium, the web beneath all we see, and joy is simply the sense that we are woven, never truly isolated but ever interdependent. Joy is not the opposite of sorrow nor the absence of grief, but the surprise, sensed over and over, that the truest fact about who we are is that we are connected. Joy is the feeling of finding that underneath your life, no matter how far you’ve fallen nor how much you hurt, the web of love still holds."- K.J. Ramsey
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