Sara Davidson quotes:

...... an outlaw gulch, a haven for draft resisters, struggling artists, and drug addicts.....a camp for semi-demented adults.... Venice is like the legendary Phoenix - it always seems to rise again from the ashes.

The ability to laugh at life is right at the top, with love and communication, in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour has much to do with pain; it exaggerates the anxieties and absurdities we feel, so that we gain distance and through laughter, relief.

Dear Lord, have you brought me all this way just to stop? Why, why, was I allowed to search so long, to come so near?

The best we can do is focus on what we have the power to improve in ourselves, and when it comes to body-love the one you are with.