Status Updates From Gaining Ground

1970's feminist novel now back in print and deservedly so. A look into womens mental health and agency over their own lives of our moms generation, before we had today's knowledge and vocabulary. I cannot put this down.

"after all this time what I had assumed was real about my life had turned out to be a mask and a charade, a play in which I performed, admirably on rare occasions, but without truth."

It is late and I must go to bed because I have obligations tomorrow. I can barely stand to lay the book aside. **note to self**-Sometimes wishes come true.

Somewhere in me was some deep-buried worm that gnawed its way through the hidden places of all the parts of my life, so gently, so delicately, that I could not tell, until the hidden places had all been eaten away and there was nothing left to root me to what I had or what I was.
A church teaches that despair is the gravest sin. I was sliding into despair.

The birds that have not yet flown south will seem far away, far above, and there is no place on my land that is more quiet. One can drink here not only the water from the stream, but the silence.

The book I have is an alternative title "Abra". This book was suggested to me by Pedro.