May 4, 2021
Gleanings
- If you observe and you plan, in other words, if you adjust and you trust what the data shows, you can send a rocket ship to Mars.
- Seven Things You Don’t Need to be an Artist
- My kitchen table holds a small bouquet of flowers that have brightened each of my days in the past week.
- I probably shouldn’t complain when Mother Nature is showing off so beautifully but oh, what a labyrinthine year it’s been…
- It breaks my heart when people refer to him in the past, though I understand why they do. He is not the person we used to know. And past imperfect is the correct choice, alas, for many of his loves and hobbies…
- A moment in which most things feel possible; the moment in which I haven’t yet dropped anything irrevocably today and I can maybe pick up some of yesterday’s things.
- Delight is not a respite from our troubled world but a direct and more mysterious engagement with it.
- I think that is what I like so much about soup. It is, by its very nature, a dish that you don’t have to apologize to.
- In 1990, I arrived at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, having no idea that the greatest gift of that seven-month fellowship would be the start of a lifelong friendship with Elizabeth McCracken.
- I have been thinking about Carl Sagan and his passion for science.
- I’m remembering how we learn to be parents—and thinking about what it means to offer love and support, when someone’s parenthood is new.
- Instead, she owns these actions and their role in her life. Many of them were physically harmful, all of them were attempts to lessen spiritual pain. And all are part of her, part of what she has fused to create herself—a complicated woman and skilled writer.
- What a wonderful thing to be at a point in your life when you can do something like this, unapologetically, and so beautifully.
- But we have no choice but to begin again. To roll out a fresh slab. Smooth out the bubbles. Wrap it well. Be patient. Cross our fingers. And our toes.
- So there you have it. The Curious Case of Janet Dailey and the Missing Author.
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I’ve only read a handful so far, but what thoughtful writing.
And thank you for including me among these treasures.