25-01-19 - 25-01-25
Image description: a park bench on white grass, effect created with infrared filter on digital camera. Photo by Charles Earl
Sunday
Look, we are not unspectacular things. / We’ve come this far, survived this much. / What would happen if we decided to survive more? / To love harder?
Ada Limón as quoted by
in Poetry TodayMonday
Crack open my shell. Steal the pearl.
I’ll still be laughing.
It’s the rookies who laugh only when they win
Rumi, Your laughter turns the world to paradise, as quoted by
in The Isolation Journals with Suleika Jaouad Dream Nests & Nectar & Day Five of our New Year’s Journaling ChallengeTuesday
Sixty-year-old Chinese grandmother Su Min had no intention of becoming a feminist icon. She was only trying to escape her abusive husband when she hit the road in 2020 in her white Volkswagen hatchback with a rooftop tent and her pension.
I felt like I could finally catch my breath. I felt like I could survive and find a way of life that I wanted. -Su Min
Over the next four years and 180,000 miles, the video diaries she shared of her adventures, while detailing decades of pain, earned her millions of cheerleaders online. They called her the "road-tripping auntie" as she inadvertently turned into a hero for women who felt trapped in their own lives.
Posted in Feminist Giant’s Global Roundup by
Wednesday
Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking. We must lay the foundation while we may not know exactly how to build the ceiling.”
Greta Thunberg. as seen on Rebecca Solnit’s Bluesky
Thursday
Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
Susie Dent’s Word of the Day feature on her Bluesky.
Friday
Make the world your salon.
Mina Loy as quoted in Debbie, an Epic by Lisa Robertson
Saturday
…for who are we, who is each of us, if not a combinatorics of experiences,
of information, of things we have read and imagined? Every life is an encyclopedia, a library, an inventory of objects, a pattern book of styles, in which everything can be
constantly remixed and rearranged in every possible fashion.
Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millenniumsix
I’ve quoted this in my hybrid work in progress, Companion Reader, A Hybrid Work of Failed Beginnings, Unsent Letters, Doodles, Favoured Quotes, Fragments, Memoir, Broken Statements,and Stumbles.
If you have inspiring and intriguing quotes to share, please reach out. I’d love to include them here.
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