Status Updates From Always Carry Salt: A Memoir...

“I could tell him translation is crossing bridges over roaring seas. Working hard to make spaces where we can talk to each other. […] Powered by- imposible without- empathy. And we are all doing it, all the time. Even when speaking the same language…”

“This was what you were supposed to do with your demons, wasn’t it? To name them and contain them, to give them somewhere safe to be so they weren’t roaming everywhere […] To befriend them, perhaps? I was thinking, of course, about my demons too.”

“And what if the women didn’t commission bowls because they feared Lilith? What if they did it because they were scared they’d be blamed if bad things happened to their children, so they gave the blame to Lilith? And what if she took that weight? […] It made me sad to think that if she did do this, she was then trapped […] No wonder she tried to crack the bowl to get free.”

Moved to tears by the revival of Wôpanâak? “Now I can pray in my own language”