“After all, what is reality anyway? Nothing but a collective hunch. . . . I made some studies, and reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small doses, but as a lifestyle I found it too confining.”
— Jane Wagner *

“We are between stories.”
— Thomas Berry **

[From The World is Made of Stories by David R. Loy]

* Jane Wagner (born February 26, 1935) is an American writer, director and producer. Wagner is best known as Lily Tomlin’s comedy writer, collaborator and life partner / per Wikipedia.

** Thomas Berry, C.P. (November 9, 1914 – June 1, 2009) was a Catholic priest of the Passionist order, cultural historian and ecotheologian (although cosmologist and geologian — or “Earth scholar” — were his preferred descriptors) /per Wikipedia.