Twila’s Reviews > Only Spell Deep > Status Update

I don’t know about your family or where your people come from but in my family, a powerful woman is a blessing not a curse. We trace our heritage through the matriarchal line. A strong woman is a strong foundation on which to build a strong faith you shouldn’t be ashamed of who you are because you are a wonder and you’re good whoever taught you to fear yourself they were wrong.

"Secretly, all women burn, Judeth," she said the day she found me setting fir cones alight with a flick of my fingers behind the house. "For desire. For revenge. For independence. For answers.
For a power that has been continually denied them and a gaze that penetrates deep enough to truly witness them. For children wanted and children lost. For the future, then the past. To be a woman is to be a fire."

This open floor plan is a dumpster fire of an idea, with all the vaulted, echoey sounds and everyone breathing everyone else's air, desks crammed up against each other like a traffic jam. Management believes it enhances collaboration.