Kris

“We never really recover, just move on the best we can.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“A community’s first responsibility is to protect its children—the ones we have now and the ones we will have.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

“I mean to learn everything I can while I can,”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

“What shook me about Campbell’s words is how perfectly they describe motherhood. To begin with: a “profound dream state.” The first three months after my son was born, for sure, were nothing less than a never-ending somnambulance. And even though I was not on a secret island or a lofty mountaintop, once I became a mom, I felt in my bones that deep sense of distance and isolation, of being far away from everyone else, stranded with my new “strangely fluid and polymorphous being” — i.e., my baby. If you’ve ever had a quality hang with a baby or very small child, you know a baby is as polymorphous as it fucking gets. Infants are from one minute to the next, by turns otters, mermen, humans, wombats, and puppies.”
― Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood