March 12, 2019
Gleanings
- Why can’t we have parent-friendly Parliaments?
- My mother, you see, was an avid recycler from way back.
- David Tennant does a podcast with…
- “Darling, I love you goddamn, goddamn, goddamn much.”
- I feel like cancer has made me give up enough in this life.
- “Just a humble, decent dude”
- Someone called this blur an ordinary loneliness.
- But more so I’m here to iron things out. There is a decision I need to make and neither choice is ideal or easy.
- Here’s another definition of irony: It’s when the woman who writes the story of her life feels she has to prove that the story is hers.
- It’s not hard to understand why some people take such issue with us being able exercise the most complex and significant power there is.
- I am so grateful for this conversation and the chance to stumble through these thoughts and try to get closer to what I think and figure it out. I don’t know about this idea that we’re all supposed to know everything all the time…
- Stop telling women they need to be different or learn different things and start building an organization where they are themselves.
- Something that I think I cannot examine and re-examine and remember often enough.
- The woman I am today is an amalgam of a great many snapshots…
- I’ve only discovered the Moomins as an adult…
- I logged it all here like a dutiful aughts-era blogger with no larger agenda for what it would become, because how could I have known?
- Does the place where one was a child imprint more deeply than anywhere?
- It’s always a little adventure, to delve into a handbag I haven’t used in months, years.
- She is seeking not so much escape as neutrality: reading is a form of withdrawal, a way of refusing or rejecting the whole otherwise intractable situation around her.
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Kerry,
What a wonderful surprise!
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Drew