Status Updates From The Maytrees

i thought this would be the book I’ve been searching for all my life. then i read further and then Annie Dillard died.

either way, her writing makes the beautiful so horrible, and the horrible things somehow so beautiful.

"What gave adults the cheer to tolerate their hypocrisy? Even his mother praised generosity and hoarded; she preached industry and barely worked. Perhaps every generation passes to the next, to hand down to more children, an untouched trunk of virtues. The adults describe the trunk's contents to the young and never open it."

Ugh men