January 20, 2020
Gleanings
- “It is worthwhile to point to the absences, the silences, the erasures in stories. But the questions should be an invitation to creation, not an end to conversation.”
- The book feels like listening to a friend tell the story of living eight years in a place she was initially only curious about but came to deeply love… including, and maybe especially because of, the tough moments.
- Telling stories helps. As necessary as bread.
- The character got a spark from the person once, but at this point the two flames burn entirely separately.
- What happens if you decide to just embrace something you love? Be a champion for that thing?
- Another good reason to double up our meetings, when and if we can, is simply because we love them and they’re an excuse to help us through the winter.
- Maybe, like Greek philosophy, parenting, too, can offer one model for holding the difficulties of the present moment in mind, but differently.
- Don’t you just love it when that happens, when you think… rum, again?? And it all begins to feel like a kind of reading serendipity is happening.
- I love going out for dinner with a friend. French fries. A Cabernet. Three, four hours of uninterrupted, juicy conversation. Equally, I love not going out for dinner. And not talking.
- Rather, time alone in the woods created a personal, quiet space in which I have always been able to find composure, contentment and serene happiness.
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