Lindsay

“It’s no accident that this systematic suppression of the feminine has been accompanied down the centuries not only by the devaluation of all that is wild and instinctual in our own natures, but by the purposeful destruction of natural ecosystems. We long ago turned our backs on the planet which gives us life.”
― Sharon Blackie, If Women Rose Rooted: A Journey to Authenticity and Belonging

“Whenever I was in the woods, on my own, I would have one ear pricked for the sound of approaching footsteps. I would always make sure that I knew what time sundown was, how to find the path back. I started to carry a pepper spray. I was full of impotent rage. When I saw men jogging through the trees I envied them their freedom, and this is in the full knowledge that men, too, can be attacked in quiet places. But the men I saw seemed to think they were invulnerable, just as I had on that summer day; the women, on the other hand, were more like me, all too aware of how “the great outdoors” can be a dangerous place for a lone female, even in broad daylight.”
― Sharon Blackie, If Women Rose Rooted: A Journey to Authenticity and Belonging

“All people need a place where their roots can grow deep and they always feel like they belong and have a loving refuge. And all people need a place that gives wings to their dreams, nurturing possibilities of who they might become.”
― Sally Clarkson, The Lifegiving Home: Creating a Place of Belonging and Becoming

“Likewise, the passive tasks—Facebook, email, television, etc.—are easy. And they are fine in small doses (I’ll likely check my email for thirty minutes today or tomorrow, and I’ll certainly spend a few minutes on Twitter). But there’s no grand reward for passivity, just pain and regret and an emptiness that’s hard to articulate. Later”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, Everything That Remains: A Memoir by The Minimalists