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Margaret Renkl’s Followers (15)
Margaret Renkl
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The Marigold Poems
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“Nothing is harder to love about the natural world—or the human world—than its ceaseless brutality.”
― The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
― The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
“To follow politics these days is to court bewilderment, denial, complete despair. Too often I feel I am living in a country I no longer recognize, a country determined to imperil every principle I hold dear and many of the people I love, too. Immersing myself in the natural world of my own backyard—or the nearby parks and greenways, or the woods surrounding our friends’ cabin on the Cumberland Plateau—is the way I cope with whatever I think I cannot bear. I’m not trying to hide from the truth but to balance it, to remind myself that there are other truths, too. I need to remember that the earth, fragile as it is, remains heartbreakingly beautiful. I need to give my attention to a realm that is indifferent to fretful human mutterings and naked human anger, a world unaware of the hatred and distrust taking over the news.”
― The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
― The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
“After our last child left for college, I struggled. The full life it had taken years, decades, to build had vanished, as evanescent as the mist. They all came home for Thanksgiving, and I—who had spent so much of their childhood despairing that I would never again have a moment to myself—followed them around like a girl spurned but loving still, ashamed. They are building their own lives now, and when they left home to return to them, I took myself to the woods. Because sometimes the only cure for homesickness is to enlarge the definition of home.”
― The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
― The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
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