#NOCO Life

"Whenever we enter the land, sooner or later we pick up the scent of our own histories." - William Least Heat-Moon

"We are called to bear witness to so much pain—and to make room in our bodies and our spirits to hold so much of our own pain." - Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray "Are you willing to be transformed in the service of the work?" - Mary Hooks

"Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past." - George Orwell "We inherit covenant before we create covenant." - Rebecca Parker

"Whatever the future may have in store, one thing is certain; unless local communal life can be restored, the public cannot adequately solve its most urgent problems - to find and identify itself." - John Dewey, 1927"The older I get, the more I'm conscious of ways very small things can make a change in the world. Tiny little things, but the world is made up of tiny matters, isn't it?"- Sandra Cisneros