December 2, 2019
Gleanings
- No one gets anywhere by scrolling, they get there by doing.
- Lake Superior just happens to be Linnea’s blank page.
- Community doesn’t just happen—we have to make it happen
- When women are killed because they are women, we have to acknowledge that, and not retreat in silence. Silence doesn’t honour the dead, and it doesn’t protect the living.
- Ten years into motherhood, and my children hang off my boughs much less than they used to.
- It has taken me no less than ten years to make the acquaintance of Olive Kitteridge.
- How ordinary we all really are. How meaningful it is, to be just that: ordinary.
- A book, especially one received as a present, is a thought made tangible–a gift from the past, a gift for the future, a way to touch those who have gone before and, if we’re lucky, those to come.
- This year marks the fifth anniversary of the Short Story Advent Calendar, one of the Christmas season’s most dependably enjoyable traditions.
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