Marion Coutts Quotes

#1. Two days after your death, in a dream you text me many times. I read the first of them. ME! And so are the living comforted.

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#2. If we were spirits we would use crises as an oppurtunity to flit, change shape, become airborne or take to the trees. We might change from water to wood, or wood to wind.

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#3. Again that weird trick: knowledge falls on to the ground that seems ready prepared though you never remember doing it.

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#4. I am a blessings counter.

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#5. But over and above the offers of help and love, precious and determined though they are, is the fact that we are public knowledge. Our signal has been heard. By each response a friend is activated. Our message had a single note. Here is its returning chord.

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#6. Tom's language is our weather, the sky we live under .....

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#7. There is going to be destruction: the obliteration of a person, his intellect, his experience and his agency. I am to watch it. This is my part.

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#8. It is the miracle of consciousness and I am its witness.
We are Creatures.
It is bliss

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#9. Childbirth is nothing. Death is mighty. The 0 to our 1. There is nothing in the world like it. But there is nothing in it that is not like the world.

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#10. And did you rise to what the occasion demanded ?
I rose so high, I left my body.

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#11. Tom and I sit on a bench in the garden to watch the moon melt in an arc below the horizon as fast as ice on a warm hand before we can call the others to witness its exit.

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#12. Maintaining the thinnest facade of a functioning family that tries to act as others do - plan ahead, drive somewhere, go on holiday, relax - is beyond us. We are smashed. Insecurity jams the gears on every action. Each time we are toppled. I feel a fool over and over again for trying.

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