March 30, 2021
Gleanings
- From early childhood, water was essential to Woolf, and to her work.
- The young man could not believe his eyes. It was Grandma Millie in ill-fitting second-hand clothes, sitting on a piece of cardboard and begging for change on the streets of Winnipeg, Man. How did this happen and, more importantly, how was she going to make it?
- The living that turned into dying has so many stories, and so does grieving in the wake of it, I don’t know where to begin telling any of them, or even if I should, because, really, loss is ubiquitous and telling is more like joining a song already being sung in many places.
- I’m going to give people the benefit of the doubt, which is something we always do in the library, and when we do, it works magic. I never want to forget that.
- By adapting the lexicon and ideas of science to their work, they’ve created bold hybrids in fiction and memoir that defy categories, challenge narratives and remark on the eerie culpabilities of discovery.
- So, I’m just saying. I really think there should be some sort of club for this, where we meet up outside and just scream
- When someone is in trouble, people get distressed and they want to help. It’s brilliant. What’s not brilliant is that difficult life situations are so nuanced that “out of the box” advice or judgements very, very rarely apply.
- At first I wasn’t entirely sure how to wrap my brain about such vast emptiness – a calendar with no entries – but slowly small projects began to seep in and now a whopper has come my way.
- While none of these may be print-worthy, they’re the result of letting go of certainties and embracing the bravery of experimentation and creativity.
- I’m so lucky to have been brought up in a house where it was so easy to fall in love with reading.
- A cake can turn a Tuesday into an occasion.
- The small moment when the bee stepped forward, reluctantly, into the sweetness of the yellow flowers, a few of their bells open on the drooping racemes, that moment is with me…
- “You look so happy”: that’s not the only thing reading can do, and it isn’t always what we want from our reading, but it’s a special gift when it happens, isn’t it, especially these days?
- The book isn’t finished. The book is in process.
- In one sense, Who Is Maud Dixon? is about the perils and consequences of taking this idea to its logical extreme. “Everyone in Marrakesh is pretending to be someone they’re not,” says a hotel manager when the two women arrive in Morocco.
- I want depth and breadth and art and wonder. I want more. I want more of the good stuff. The good good stuff.
- It’s play, this process. Like playing imaginary games as a child, where there were rules but you were making them up as you went…
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oh geez Kerry, I am so thankful you are still sharing these delightfully diverse Gleanings. And thank you for including me. I’ve only read 4 so far but I so enjoy them.
I’m so friggin’ fed up with the people who are not doing their part with this pandemic. We’ve been hit with another lock down in our province. It’s so friggin’ unfair to the majority of us. Frig! Frig!
Happy Easter.