As I rise from the table, it occurs to me that part of what I feel, watching them, is a sense of betrayal. I carried these children into the world, paid their entrance fee with dues rendered upon
“Chona had never been one to play by the rules of American society. She did not experience the world as most people did. To her, the world was not a china closet where you admire this and don’t touch that. Rather, she saw it as a place where every act of living was a chance for tikkun olam, to improve the world. The tiny woman with the bad foot was all soul.”
― The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
― The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
“Because life isn’t what we experience. It’s how we remember it.”
― The Girl in the Tree
― The Girl in the Tree
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