April 15, 2019
Gleanings
- Having no food traditions to call my own has suddenly become liberating— something I can use, I hope, to explain to my children the connection between history and freedom and the world they’re growing up in.
- I used to think that I had to leave all sorts of mementos behind for my girls when I died…
- How do we stop judging ourselves? By forgiving ourselves for not being perfect, by letting go of the past and accepting that we did the best we could do under the circumstances…
- Children have value and are deserving of respect, simply because they exist. It matters not that they don’t vote yet nor have an income that translates into purchasing power. The measure of their worth is not any company’s bottom line.
- The ability/ to simultaneously/ write and mother well.
- Instead of making up a clear, concise one-sided narrative and sticking to it, she was admitting an unspeakable, untweetable, politically unpalatable fact: Sometimes, the truth is complicated.
- No woman, dead or alive, could hope to win the nation’s heart by writing about seeking communion in a Kansas bar while her husband drove carpool in El Paso.
- what I find really depressing is the continuing buoyancy of the market for sexist crap
- Learning to balance my to-dos with my no-need-to-do-a-thing-right-now is my new to-do.
- The trick to freezing liquids in a mason jar is simply not to overfill the jar.
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Whether it was what Tom MacInnes or Lea Zeltzerman (hope I remembered those names correctly) so eloquently wrote, and several in between, I am truly enjoying the vast perspectives on life you’ve chosen for Gleanings. I don’t always read the posts as they’re released but truly have enjoyed this intriguing space you’ve created for us.
Thank you, Diane! I am so happy to have discovered your blog.