March 31, 2020
Gleanings
I made a list of Books With Vision whose authors imagine a different, better kind of world. If you’re looking for a book that’s relevant to read right now, here would be a good place to start. Hope you are keeping well.
- And yes we are watching numbers when what we are looking at are people, bodies, lives no more, deaths. Yes we are baking upside down plum cakes and eating salt and vinegar chips and worrying about our children. Yes we are finding it hard to concentrate.
- But what we do know, is that we’ve all navigated challenges, and that we’ll navigate this one, too.
- Tragic times call for extraordinary qualities. We are made for heroic realities.
- Finding our purpose is not a direct flight. I think, maybe, our purpose is the journey itself.
- That there’s no one I’d rather be cooped up with than my husband
- …two months ago, a positively bizarre time in which we entered and left our homes with abandon, casually hugged friends we were happy to see, and if our nose became itchy, we’d scratch it and not stand paralyzed in panic afterward. What salad days!
- I choose to see the silver lining, to embrace what is good and right.
- Such contrasts make life more interesting.
- Clare Hunter’s Threads of Life is a marvelous, inspiring, touching, and extremely wide-ranging account of the myriad ways needle crafts of all kinds have mattered and made meaning throughout history.
- Can making stuff amidst the mayhem REALLY improve our mental health?
- I guess it’s not a big surprise to me that Virginia Woolf is what I need right now.
- Let’s be okay with ourselves at our laziest, at our saddest, at our most vulnerable.
- Possibly the best bit of our day is the afternoon walk to the woods, and right now they are looking stunning, though the next best bit is the fields on the way up.
- Believe me when I say I started out intending to read The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, just that one book. I couldn’t stop.
- And some day, I’ll be ready to begin my own work again. Not yet–not today. But soon. And until then, I’ll visit with old friends.
- Five things I am grateful for
Thank you — I gleaned some lovely gems again today.
Lovely! Thank you for letting me know.