September 8, 2020
Gleanings
- Hold on to this moment, I remind myself. And I do.
- Dearest book lovers, we are in great peril.
- My point is that both books are solid and substantive. They require attention and care. I’m grateful that the writers shared their extensive knowledge with me.
- how necessary it is to have these two books situated cheek by jowl on the shelf
- I know I’ve said this before, but I think it’s worth repeating that keeping up with other people’s blogs has been a great source of intellectual stimulation and comfort for me over the past few months, so thanks as always to everyone whose bookish thoughts help make the internet a better place.
- I swam and thought of my grandchildren in this damaged beautiful world and when I came out to dry myself off, my face was wet with what might have been the lake and might have been tears.
- Did I clean out the tupperware cupboard like I was going to? No. Did I throw out all my day planners from when I was a stage manager in the 1980s? Yes, but it took a lot of energy. Did I write some words? FUCK YES.
- Making myself read (or otherwise experience) all of Shakespeare in a year was a way of getting myself out of a reading comfort zone.
- Historically significant times are not exactly the most restful to be living in.
- This ability to acknowledge that we hold multiple truths simultaneously, it’s learned through life experience and growing up, and time spent as a human being.
- Every time I blow the fluff off a dandelion I think of grateful bees.
- I am so glad I still keep a blog / website / or whatever the heck you prefer to call my little space here on the Internet. Do I have a heartwarming story for you today…
- I would never have become a writer if it had ever depended on my prowess typing.
- Living in Northumberland County, so very rich in agricultural lands, finding abundance is dead-easy.
- But of course, really, we all need to slowly, carefully, gently, humbly, grandly, and with great compassion, care for our own dear little crumbly old souls.
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