April 1, 2019
Gleanings
- I am rereading Emily of New Moon because of Russian Doll.
- It only took 50 very nice, polite people, including several kids, to…disrupt his agenda.
- To rescue even one child with learning problems or special needs from humiliation in the classroom and at home and from lifelong feelings of low self-esteem, is exhilarating.
- Consider how different our public policy outcomes would be if lobbyists, government-relations professionals, and former political staffers did not dominate the newspaper columns or the evening punditry panels.
- I was opening a tin of mushroom soup for lunch today when this warm wave of recollection washed over me.
- A woman’s wisdom comes, in part, from the great juggle of her life.
- I lose the thread, I miss the connection, I falter, I am lost. What just happened?
- When I wake in the night, I have the sense that everything I know is connected, that I need to find way to stitch it all together like a useful and beautiful length of tapestry.
- But sometimes, I just need them to be game. Sometimes, I just need it to to be easy.
- and the best unexpected gift of all this is how the organization of it makes me feel like I suddenly live in my very own bookshop…
- I feel like this book is so tightly bound to the bookstore, and to your understanding that readers needed a book about a life crisis that didn’t result in hiking the Pacific Crest Trail.
- Paradox: How to be proud of and show off one’s work without being offensive. Not an easy task, not by a long shot!
- Being funny is, in a number of key respects, incompatible with conventional femininity.
- I’ve given up that mythical “trying to strike a balance in life” thing, and now I really just strive to not be shattered into a million pieces.
