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Category: Anita Diamant

I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose’s childhood, but time is a mother’s enemy.

growing-up, innocence-lost, parenting, youth

Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.

anita-diamant, day-after-night, fate, life-choices, making-plans

Mind your business” had been the motto of her childhood. But now that seemed like a failing in a friend.

failure, friend, friendship, minding-his-own-busines

[The sound of the wind] was just more proof that the workings of the world were random, that beauty, like suffering, was meaningless, that human life was as pointless as waves on sand.

anita-diamant, beauty, day-after-night, meaninglessness-of-life, random-chance, randomness, suffering

Mort moved my ending to the beginning, took out all the adjectives, cut the whole thing in half, and made it one hundred percent better.’That’s how it’s done,’ he said. Best writing lesson I ever had.

journalism, writing

The more a daughter knows about the details of her mother’s life – without flinching or whining – the stronger the daughter.

daughters, mothers

They sang the words in unison, yet somehow created a web of sounds with their voices. It was like hearing a piece of fabric woven with all the colors of a rainbow. I did not know that such beauty could be formed by the human mouth. I had never heard harmony before.

color, rainbow, song

I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.

crush, dance, dancing, like, love, toggetherness

I don’t want to die, Buddy.’ She put her head on his chest. ‘I know this cancer probably won’t kill me. But I think about dying all the time. I dream about it. What do you think? Do I get to see Pat on the other side, or do I just lie there in the dirt forever?’…Buddy wrapped his arms around her and drew her close. ‘I think dead is dead,’ he said softly, near her ear. ‘But that’s not so bad. I think of it as following. Following the rest of them…My mother and father. Your sister. Your mom. But not just them. All of them. All of us. People…Maybe it’s just a way to feel less lonesome about the whole thing, but I think of dying as a path we all go down separately at first, but eventually, together.

cancer, death-and-dying

Fear not, the time is comingFear not, your bones are strongFear not, help is nearbyFear not, Gula is nearFear not, the baby is at the doorFear not, he will live to bring you honorFear not, the hands of the midwife are cleverFear not, the earth is beneath you Fear not, we have water and saltFear not, little motherFear not, mother of us all

labor, motherhood

Just as there is no warning for childbirth, there is no preparation for the sight of a first child… There should be a song for women to sing at this moment, or a prayer to recite. But perhaps there is none because there are no words strong enough to name the moment.

baby, childbirth, giving-birth, having-a-baby, love, maternal-love, mother-s-love, motherhood, mothers, women

It’s a good thing babies don’t give you a lot of time to think. You fall in love with them and when you realize how much they love you back, life is very simple.

babies, motherhood