Wisdom can sneak up on you when you least expect it. If you're not paying attention and catch it out of the corner of your eye, you might think it's a spider and squish it flat...
Tuesday, November 06, 2012
Random Quote Tuesday
"...stories don't start and stop cleanly, not like crossword puzzles or income tax statements, where answers fit in small boxes. Romance, families, and domestic arrangements--these, in my experience, are sloppy, overlapping and riddled with exceptions."
Who is that Masked Mom? I'm the mother of four children, ages 21 to 28, grandma to one, employed full-time in the chemical dependency field, writer in personality if not always in practice,married twenty-eight years, waiting less and less patiently for all the hard-earned wisdom to kick in so I can relax and coast a while....
and complicated and hard and questionable and why do we persist?
ReplyDeleteOh, Gracie, good question, good question. I've been working on an email...
Deleteyou remember our agreement.... make room for emails when there is room. :)
DeleteIt's all a beautiful gory mess.
ReplyDeleteLife and stories a mess, a beautiful tangled mess whose design we never fully see ;-)
ReplyDelete