April 20, 2021
Gleanings
- Since the winter stay-at-home orders there has been some enlightenment on my part; whilst my emotions are spontaneous and indocile, my emotional reaction, how I process, is most definitely within my dominion.
- If you are anything like me, you have heaps of cookbooks and some of them may not have had a turn around the kitchen for quite some time. The Cookbook Circle reminds us to grab those bookish wallflowers and let them shine.
- This is one my favourite photos of my father.
- Daffodils open like unexpected suns.
- My children hide behind a bush; there goes our shady Mum, nicking flowers off trees again.
- I thoroughly enjoyed all of those things, but what I really loved about this book was its Golden Age-esque intelligence and complexity.
- “annual popular illustrated magazine dealing with Post Office questions, designed to extend public understanding of postal service, lightly written articles 2,500 to 3,000 words on Post Office matters…”
- I imagine they used a mason jar for preserves but also to save their coins.
- I do love a good seasonal read to really wallow in the unique characteristics of whatever time of year I happen to be experiencing. I think I would hate living in a place that didn’t have seasons.
- I have to write from a place of utter curiosity and an openness to hearing the layers of stories that are in any one story,” Echlin says. “It’s not just one story.”
- Maybe it’s worth something small though to yell out, yes I am dealing with the new dark parts of my soul! I honestly don’t know if this is true.
- Who needs to ask questions, when all the questions you’ve never even thought to ask are already being answered? I understand: And that’s my job, as advice columnist, at your service.
- “We came for the bookstore.” That’s what we used to tell people when they asked why we moved here.
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