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Anne Wellman
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Threads of Awakening: An American Woman's Journey Into Tibet's Sacred Textile Art by Leslie Rinchen-WongmoMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is the beautifully written account of an American woman's journey into the making of textile thangkas, the Tibetan wall hangings depicting sacred Buddhist figures. Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo was so struck by the beauty of thangkas when in Tibet as a young woman that Read more of this blog post »
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| A beautifully written account of an American woman's search for her European settler ancestors and their shaping of her own life. There is inevitably less and less information the farther back you go in ancestral research, however, and the work there ...more | |
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| A fresh approach to memoir - life remembered through body parts (eyes, ears, stomach, etc. and yes, more intimate ones). An often very funny, but also moving, account of a life well lived by this talented Norwegian-born American writer. In the end it ...more | |
“The 1931 application to the Superior Court of the State of Washington for King County stated that Bob failed to do his part on the farm and left everything to Betty. The greater part of raising the chickens had fallen to Betty's lot, and the living and returns from this labor were very meager. She had had to work 'beyond her strength' in carrying water and gathering wood to keep herself and the babies from cold. Bob had neglected and refused to make provision for his family, now and during the marriage. He was an alcoholic and was frequently drunken and abusive. On one occasion he had poured coal-oil on the side of the house and set it on fire, and it was only a timely discovery by Betty and her younger sister that destruction of the house and injury to the family were averted, the statement declared. (Some sources suggest that Bob was running a moonshine operation, and certainly there are plenty of references to moonshine in Egg, including Bob drinking it with his Native American friends. A chapter on the local moonshiner was reportedly excised from the book by lawyers before publication.)”
― Betty: The Story of Betty MacDonald, Author of The Egg and I
― Betty: The Story of Betty MacDonald, Author of The Egg and I
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“Some Saturday mornings, as soon as the mountains had bottled up the last cheerful sound of Bob and the truck, I, feeling like a cross between a boll weevil and a slut, took a large cup of hot coffee, a hot-water bottle, a cigarette and a magazine and WENT BACK TO BED. Then, from six-thirty until nine or so, I luxuriated in breaking the old mountain tradition that a decent woman is in bed only between the hours of seven pm and four am unless she is in labor or dead.”
― The Egg and I
― The Egg and I
“Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease which, once contracted, cannot be got out of the system. If it was not like that, there would be no hospital nurses, for compared dispassionately with other professions, the hours are long, the work hard, and the pay inadequate to the amount of concentrated energy required.
A nurse, however, does not view her profession dispassionately. It is too much a part of her.”
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A nurse, however, does not view her profession dispassionately. It is too much a part of her.”
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“Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own head. Very selfish.”
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“But Mariana was wrong. You couldn't die. You had to go on. When you were born, you were given a trust of individuality that you were bound to preserve. It was precious. The things that happened in your life, however closely connected with other people, developed and strengthened that individuality. You became a person.”
― Mariana
― Mariana
“Nothing that ever happens in life can take away the fact that I am me. So I have to go on being me.”
― Mariana
― Mariana
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