July 15, 2019
Gleanings: Special Summer Edition
- “I had this tremendous urge to see giraffes roaming free.”
- “I want to say that I think selfies are potentially beautiful and ridiculous and fun and ultimately sublime attempts to capture your own soul when others have perhaps failed.”
- I want readers to understand that women are highly complicated and complex individuals — and that humans are very contradictory.
- That morning, Georgia found out that I was the tooth fairy.
- How like motherhood to occupy the margins, even while the image depends on you, depends on the hand you firmly hold against the force of a door that wants to close.
- What is a photograph of an ordinary person? That’s my question.
- I am definitely a sucker for a well-designed and beautiful book cover and this one might be the most beautiful I’ve ever seen.
- Begin with humility, I told the group in my workshop. Your ignorance is an uncovered manhole and if you’re not careful, you’ll topple in.
- One day, my baby will wear an enormous tutu and dance around the kitchen to Blondie.
