Chanda Scobee’s Reviews > Middletide > Status Update

“The pity would be to waste the periods of bleakness rather than to use them. Just as in winter, when the ground needed to be tilled and the dead trees pruned, the hopeless seasons of life were a chance to grapple with the hard soil of his heart and let the sadness hit him like the sharp edge of a hoe, loosening and breaking apart the unyielding ground there.”