“You can tell the truth and still betray yourself. You can be honest and still be wrong. Truth is what happened. Honesty is how it lives in you.”

“Famine is not a word. It is people with no food. And here I am— hearing the hum of my fridge. Opening a refrigerator full of food. Wondering what it means to eat while others cannot.”

If you have ever woken up and felt like you are back at the start line, new plan, same old you, trust me. I know the feeling. Somewhere out here in the dusty desert of your mind, you are me — Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius. Eyes locked on that smug little blur called the Roadrunner... Beep beep!

Simple words. But if you really listen, if you let them in without overthinking or brushing them off as just another feel-good lyric, they begin to land differently. They soften something. They remind you that maybe it is okay to let go for a moment.