November 30, 2021
Gleanings
- Change is literally baked into plot, just like change is baked into each of our lives.
- If you stop and take a moment to let them in, you’ll see that joys abound.
- Friendship has been on my mind a lot lately. We tend to overlook its importance in our lives. But when you’re single and live alone, contact with friends is important, especially in a pandemic world.
- And how does one move and live and experience joy and laugh and dance amidst all of it?
- There is more delight than I could have foreseen in these teenaged years. Sometimes its just the tiniest moment between the tumults, but man, they are an entire world of glow. a secret look into the snowglobe of the world.
- I wish Jo Baker had not written Longbourn: if I hadn’t assumed that she was just one more unimaginative barnacle on the unstoppable ship Austen Always Sells, I might have read her other books sooner.
- And maybe swimming is just that too: swimming. But it feels like such a potent time, a meditation that isn’t always peaceful (those waves), pushing my body forward and back in the water, eyes open but not seeing anything outer.
- Most days, I am happy to drift aimlessly on a gentle breeze. Increasingly, I welcome the wind swirling around me, giving me that extra push needed as I set my course.
- She told me she’d be with me always, I know she is and maybe it’s in these sparrows on my deck, at my feeders full of spicy seeds.
- Just as each day is different, so too each walk is different. Each walk is like a story with different scenes, characters, and storylines.
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Thank you Kerry. xo