May 25, 2021
Gleanings
- It’s amazing to me, that over a few short weeks, our city has turned from grey to green.
- Then there was the asparagus itself. It seemed magical. That it could grow in such sandy soil. That it came and went so quickly—just a few weeks in May and June. But most of all because every day we would pick the same field.
- Some mornings I feel as though I am hovering between this world and another and I don’t have the words to say who I am.
- So Constant Nobody is about power, duty, identity, and love and functions as a hybrid of espionage, feminist, historical, and literary fiction.
- I make it sound very innocent don’t I? If I told you that there are scenes both of blueberry picking and blueberry jam-making, that the cast is almost entirely female, and that much of the novel consists of the inner workings of a 54-year-old woman’s mind, you might be left with a certain kind of impression. Reader, you would be wrong.
- I didn’t plant a lilac at our first home because I knew we would likely be leaving, but here, I thought, here is where we will stay. Here is where we will raise our family, here is where we need a lilac tree.
- Understanding someone doesn’t mean we must agree with their worldviews or convert to their ideologies or repent for our own beliefs.
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