I had the realization the other day, that I never wanted to be one of those women where the biggest thing they had in their life was getting married. Darned if I didn't damn myself to fate.
The biggest thing I have in my life today is that I'm getting married. My feminista identity is being rocked to the core.
Least ways it's going to be an awesome wedding.
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Canning Nerds
Just steamed through another Barbara Kingsolver tome. When I told my girlfriends at a recent dinner that I was finally reading 'Animal, Vegetable, Miracle'- one retorted that I could have written it. As if! (Though I did glow a bit from the compliment on lifestyle.)
I remembered her comment in particular when I got to this quote last night.
"Some moment of every summer finds me all out of canning jars. So I go to town and stand in line at the hardware store carrying one or two boxes of canning jars and lids, renewing my membership in a secret society. Elderly women and some men, too, will smile their approval or ask outright, 'What are you canning?' These folks must see me as an anomaly of my generation, an earnest holdout, while the younger clientele see me as a primordial nerdhead, if they even notice. I suppose I'm both. If I even notice."
Barbara Kingsolver! If you and I weren't twins in some life past- I don't know what. I'm pretty sure though, that I qualify for a bigger primordial nerdhead because you're definitely old enough to be my mom.
I remembered her comment in particular when I got to this quote last night.
"Some moment of every summer finds me all out of canning jars. So I go to town and stand in line at the hardware store carrying one or two boxes of canning jars and lids, renewing my membership in a secret society. Elderly women and some men, too, will smile their approval or ask outright, 'What are you canning?' These folks must see me as an anomaly of my generation, an earnest holdout, while the younger clientele see me as a primordial nerdhead, if they even notice. I suppose I'm both. If I even notice."
Barbara Kingsolver! If you and I weren't twins in some life past- I don't know what. I'm pretty sure though, that I qualify for a bigger primordial nerdhead because you're definitely old enough to be my mom.
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