Listen to these voices, voices of the soul: "Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real." -- Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses "The soul is healed by being with children." -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky "And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there might eventually be a little contentment. Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted to, but I just had to lie in the mud with my arms wrapped around myself, eyes closed, grieving, until I didn't have to anymore." -- Anne Lamott, Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year