jan / still life

 

"This I know. What the colour is, who the daddy be, who the mama is don't mean nothin. We a family, carin' for each other. Family make us strong in times of trouble. We all stick together, help each other out. That the real meanin' of family." (Mama Mae, the Kitchen House)

"There is no 'better' place than this, not in this world, & it is by the place we've got & our love for it & our keeping of it that this world is joined to heaven." (Hannah Coulture)

"It felt, in that moment, like time had compressed, like history was no longer segmented into Ages & Eras, but here, living, now." (A Psalm for the Wild-Built)

"Do you know what I decided a long time ago? I decided I don't need perfect love, & I don't need a perfect husband & I don't need perfect kids & a perfect life & all that - I want mine. I want my love, my husband, my kids, my life." (Camilla, Daisy Jones & the Six)

January Reads:

I'd Rather be Reading

Anne Bogel, non-fiction

Room 

Emma Donoghue, fiction

Inside Out & Back Again

Thanha Lai, historical/youth lit / audio

Where the Red Fern Grows 

Wilson Rawls, youth lit / audio

A Psalm for the Wild-Built 

Becky Chambers, sci-fi

Hannah Coulture 

Wendell Berry, literary fiction / audio

The Kitchen House 

Kathleen Grissom, historical fiction

Daisy Jones & the Six 

Taylor Jenkins Reid, literary fiction / audio