From the Brain Pickings article on How to Be Alone: An Antidote to One of the Central Anxieties and Greatest Paradoxes of Our Time:

http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/09/03/how-to-be-alone-school-of-life/

i do love this.

The brainpicker article or the "be quiet near a stream and listen" advice?

that.  the words, the sentiment, the lovely little drawing...

Do you know where the lovely little drawing is from?

no, i don't.  this is the first i've seen it.  but it looks like a maurice sendak to me.

Good guess! A collaboration with Ruth Krauss called "Open House for Butterflies":

http://www.brainpickings.org/2013/07/25/ruth-krauss-maurice-sendak-open-house-for-butterflies/

woohoo!  i won!  (that was like a children's book author pop quiz!)

i've got to add that book to my library.  it looks wonderful.

It really does. I'm happy you discovered it!

thank you for showing it to me.  :)

You're welcome. I like these two, too:

those are beautiful.

I thought so too. :)

Another I found on Pinterest:

<3

I just now noticed the heart falling out of the tree. Sweet.