Angela

“Kind of boring, by some standards, but happy in a way you appreciate only when you understand the consequences of not being boring.”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

“This is the story of my life, that while I lived it weighed upon me and pressed against me and filled all my senses to overflowing and now is like a dream dreamed.”
― Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

“To be the mother of a grown-up child means that you don’t have a child anymore, and that is sad. When the grown-up child leaves home, that is sadder. I wanted Margaret to go to college, but when she actually went away it broke my heart. Maybe if you had enough children you could get used to those departures, but, having only three, I never did. I felt them like amputations. Something I needed was missing. Sometimes, even now, when I come into this house and it sounds empty, before I think I will wonder, “Where are they?”
― Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter