April 1, 2019
Gleanings
- I am rereading Emily of New Moon because of Russian Doll.
- It only took 50 very nice, polite people, including several kids, to…disrupt his agenda.
- To rescue even one child with learning problems or special needs from humiliation in the classroom and at home and from lifelong feelings of low self-esteem, is exhilarating.
- Consider how different our public policy outcomes would be if lobbyists, government-relations professionals, and former political staffers did not dominate the newspaper columns or the evening punditry panels.
- I was opening a tin of mushroom soup for lunch today when this warm wave of recollection washed over me.
- A woman’s wisdom comes, in part, from the great juggle of her life.
- I lose the thread, I miss the connection, I falter, I am lost. What just happened?
- When I wake in the night, I have the sense that everything I know is connected, that I need to find way to stitch it all together like a useful and beautiful length of tapestry.
- But sometimes, I just need them to be game. Sometimes, I just need it to to be easy.
- and the best unexpected gift of all this is how the organization of it makes me feel like I suddenly live in my very own bookshop…
- I feel like this book is so tightly bound to the bookstore, and to your understanding that readers needed a book about a life crisis that didn’t result in hiking the Pacific Crest Trail.
- Paradox: How to be proud of and show off one’s work without being offensive. Not an easy task, not by a long shot!
- Being funny is, in a number of key respects, incompatible with conventional femininity.
- I’ve given up that mythical “trying to strike a balance in life” thing, and now I really just strive to not be shattered into a million pieces.
This is such a nice feature, Kerry, and I’ve found all kinds of great posts to savour. But the best today? That cake. I’d love a slice of it. Lemon?
It was grapefruit (and still is, because there is a little bit still left)!
Update. All gone.
Too bad. It looks delicious there on its rack.
I always enjoy reading “Gleanings” and this time there is one, in particular, that really stands out for me after having visited and reading them. Dora Dueck’s blog post upon her reflections on opening a can of mushroom soup. So pleased there are blogs such as these.
Me too! And thanks for letting me know you appreciated it. I definitely recommended Dora’s other writing. Her most recent book is a beautiful short story collection called What You Get At Home.