Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. – Robert Louis Stevenson
I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my moms family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car – it was the late sixties – and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols. – Tori Amos