“I feel that one should see and recognize all the beautiful things and moments… that didn’t happen… places and potentials — in us as well as the world — that were silenced and ignored… because something else… had so beguiled us that we confused artifacts and descriptions with living beings and relationships. And so we receive the envelope of our potentials… the wrapping paper, if you will, instead of the birthrights and responsibilities that are the proper station of our humanity.”

— an anonymous informant