February 19, 2019
Gleanings
- I’ve had my fill of faux community consultations.
- I want to constantly renew my creativity in attempts, and tries, and blunders, and anonymity.
- …how often it’s the entire atmosphere of reading — current circumstances, personal life stage, other voices bumping alongside — that makes a particular book memorable.
- That’s really the richness and beauty of anthologies. There are debates going on, and some readers take sides.
- How much more robust would my education have been had I read more women, especially ones who were still alive?
- Little girls with mothers who are teachers-of-life grow up to be women who observe, taste, admire, explore, and appreciate.
- …and once I’m in the water, I wonder who that person was who had hesitated, so happy am I to be swimming back and forth and back again.
- There is something so satisfying in perusing other people’s bookshelves.
- They say one shouldn’t do a thing if one’s heart isn’t in it–but one probably also shouldn’t do it if the heart is too much in it.
- I realize that by using the term “chit-chat”, I’ve possibly belittled what this group has come to mean to me.
- How certain gestures, features, remain over time, in the intricate mathematics of inheritance.
- I do still adore The Stone Diaries and recently pressed it upon a student, and I can certainly see its imprint on this book.
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I’m grateful that you keep blogging — insisting on it, really –and how you seem to keep track of so much that’s going on in blogs and books, for the benefit of people like me who need a reliable place to go in order to stay at least a little bit in touch with things.
Thank you, Dora! I’m always happy to read a new post from you.
Thank you for including me in your Gleanings. I enjoy reading some of the others as well. Warmly, Diane.
My PLEASURE! Thanks for your words.