"On Boris' bluff, I grasped that I have a part to play, but it's not up to me alone. The carving effect of melting snow and ice, the rush of the river, the new growth after the forest fire taught me that the smallest touch, the briefest contact, the quietest diligence, can make a difference - can change the course of a river. There, I embraced my smallness and my greatness."
From the memoir Hiking Naked: A Quaker Woman's Search for Balance forthcoming in Fall of 2017.