It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquility; The gentleness of hea...
Mennonites formed themselves in Holland five hundred years ago after a man named Menno Simons became so moved by hearing Anabaptist prisoners singing hymns before being executed by the Spanish Inquisi...
Nomi, he said, you just need to wake up to the fact that other people need to know where you're going. But there's nobody behind me, I told him. And he said, reassuringly, that someday there may be.
When negative experiences such as having one's house shot at occur in my dad's life he tends to come alive. His confusion lifts. Pieces of life's puzzle fuse into meaning like the continents before th...
You always say oh, that’s so unprofessional as though there’s some definition of professional that’s also a moral imperative for how to behave.
The idea of working well was a relative one for us and that in the context of our present lives my mother was right, it was absolutely fine, no problem.
Course they wouldn't have all the details, like whether or not they played in squares of sunlight on their walls, if they wore spiders on their hats, if they ate hamburger every other day, if they had...
I think she was smiling the same kind of real smile that Tash had smiled just before she left. It’s a scary smile. It’s a smile that means there is nothing left to lose. That you are free,
And I finally understand what she needs to hear and that she’s talking about not just me but Elf too and I tell her that my sorrow was not created by her, that my childhood was a joyful thing, an isla...
After that we tried thirty-nine times to stand together on the tube until we finally did. It was fun. I liked the falling part, and holding hangs. Relationships were so easy when all you had to work o...
Between 2005-2009, more than 300 girls and women of Molotschna were made unconscious and attacked in their own beds. On average, an attack occurred every three or four days.Finally, Leisl Neustandter...
Books are what save us. Books are what don't save us.
But what is the bedrock of civilized society? Libraries, said Elf.
And I was scrambling around trying to make money and to study and master (and fail at mastering) the art of being an adult.
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