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There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But, who wants easier? Mary Oliver, “March,” from White Pine
“At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. She untwined herself from the arms of Admiral Paul Henry Bastedo who served under Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt, and proposed they get married in the morning so he could be her date at her late husband’s funeral. To the tabloids’ delight, the newlyweds took Helen Prindeville Griffin Bastedo’s private railway car to Lake Forest, Illinois, to attend the service. The act so outraged the Griffin family that they used their juice with Union Pacific to divert the train and the unlucky passengers coupled to Helen’s private car. The train choo-chooed deep into Wisconsin, denying the newlyweds their grand entrance to the funeral.”
― The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
― The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
“Mommy says I have to brush each night before prayers, so I can talk to God with a clean mouth.”
― 1000 Miles of Bad Road 3: After the EMPs
― 1000 Miles of Bad Road 3: After the EMPs
“God doesn’t promise us that life will always be fair. The way you move forward in faith is knowing that God is working all things for your good.”
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“September
the golden threshold
between summer and winter”
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the golden threshold
between summer and winter”
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“Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say “Ay.” These discontinuous fragments, glittering and dark, coalesced in a bewildering lunar brilliance. Fever and a silver chill contended within the child; he had become both voices crying against each other amid the fruit trees. His tight dark home, so crammed with love of him, had broken open, released him into the infinite freedom, the total coolness, of impersonation. As the light in the living room failed, he blindly faced his life, discovering himself to be, to have been since birth, an actor, an excuse for the emotions of others.”
― Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism
― Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism
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