“I have learned that trust comes and goes and love comes before hate. Elise age 10.”

“I have learned that I am enough...I have learned that no one else canLOVE ME - FOR ME.”

“I have learned that trying again is important and decisivness is good.I have learned that silence hurts.I have learned about starting overand releasing pride.”

“I have learned that frustration is allowed and talking it throughis necessary.”

“I have learned to take a bit more offand rest a little deeper.”

“What we don't let out traps us. We think, No one else feels this way, I must be crazy. So we don't say anything. And we become enveloped by a deep loneliness, not knowing where our feelings come from or what to do with them. Why do I feel this way?”

“I sat on the bench outside of class today and talked to Jon. I read to him from my journal, it was the part about the accordian player I was watching on the street last weekend. He said that an accordian is such a perfect metaphor for Love, because you are always opening, and closing, shifting, and getting air, and that's how the music happens. True.”