June 10, 2019
Gleanings
- Jennifer Weiner created the perfect reading nook. No one used it.
- Whatever we do next, as adults of our species, will determine everything.
- Women, can two or more of us get together without mentioning our bodies and diets? It would be a small act of resistance and a kindness to ourselves.
- What does it mean to be “the village” — to not just long for connection with other people but to actually show up and build those kinds of relationships and, along the way, create community for yourself and other people?
- What a gift is this life, the tawdry glamour, the writing, the body that I’ve been given and that has taken me this far.
- As the years tick past those early days, parenting life becomes less visible, doesn’t it? I suppose you are meant to know what you are doing by then?! Imagine that! Because we’re just winging it like way back when.
- So yes, we’re uncomfortable with the notion that genocide can happen within our borders, in our communities, on the long highways of our country, in its rivers where so many young women were thrown…
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