Quote for Today: Margaret Atwood
© silverin87 with CCLicense We ate the birds. We ate them. We wanted their songs to flow up through our throats and burst out of our mouths, and so we ate them. We wanted their feathers to bud from our...
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Public Domain Image via Pixabay Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later, they spring. ―Margaret Atwood,...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Margaret Atwood
The Grand Canyon as seen from Space Shuttle Discovery, 1985, PDI via NASA Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it...
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© Joseph Morris, joe@xenotropic.net with CCLicense Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women said they were afraid...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Margaret Atwood
There were places you didn’t want to walk, precautions you took that had to do with locks on windows and doors, drawing the curtains, leaving on lights. These things you did were like prayers; you did...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Margaret Atwood
The structure of the house was hierarchical, with my grandfather at the top, but its secret life – the life of pie crusts, clean sheets, the box of rags in the linen closet, the loaves in the oven –...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Margaret Atwood
Near the streetcar stop there’s a small flower shop where you can buy one flower at a time, if one flower is all you want. It’s all Yvonne ever wants. Today they have tulips, for the first time this...
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