Catherine

“I’m so glad I did not give into my anger. Later, I had to be reminded that those are his choices to make and his consequences to live with. I can only control my emotions. My leaving was my effort to go back to the calmer space I prefer my life to stay in.”
― Michael Arceneaux, I Finally Bought Some Jordans: Essays

“You can store meat in your own pantry or in the belly of your brother. Both have the result of keeping hunger at bay but with very different consequences for the people and for the land which provided that sustenance.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

“I didn’t want to be so easily triggered anymore by someone else’s failure to change. I didn’t want to be so fixated on something I could never fix. I also could stand to even give him grace.”
― Michael Arceneaux, I Finally Bought Some Jordans: Essays

“That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel