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“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.”

— Black Boy, Richard Wright (b. 4 September 1908)

I am afraid of getting older. I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day--spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free. I want, I think, to be omniscient.

Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

September 6, 2024

"Everything that was broken has forgotten its brokenness. I live now in a sky-house, through every window the sun. Also your presence. Our touching, our stories. Earthy and holy both. How can this be, but it is. Every day has something in it whose name is Forever."

— Mary Oliver

September 8 , 2024

My mother's gifts of courage to me were both large and small. The latter are woven so subtly into the fabric of my psyche that I can hardly distinguish where she stops and I begin.

Maya Angelou, Mom & Me & Mom