Alex

“Time, like masks, could make us reclaim the best of who we were and purge the worst of what we’d become. Ever faced the mask, faced his fears, and I hoped the mask healed him the way it once healed all Cherokees.”
― Oscar Hokeah, Calling for a Blanket Dance

“In other words, walking through the dark forest, you might eventually look up through the trees, see that the sky above is the same as the sky over the sunny pasture, that it is one canopy of light spread over your whole life’s landscape. Grief and joy are in the same life, but it’s only in the forest where you notice the shafts of sunlight spilling through.”
― Ben Shattuck, Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau

“Anyone and everyone working with female athletes must be able to talk about puberty and periods. They are a fact, an embodied experience shaping the daily lives of half the squad. And frankly, the stakes are too high not to.”
― Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

“Maybe I was trying to create a memory, something I could hold on to after they left, or maybe I was trying to create a memory for them, something they could hold on to after I left.”
― Oscar Hokeah, Calling for a Blanket Dance