Recent reading

I’m back from Florida exhausted, happy, and full of memories old and new.  It was marvelous.

I have never done a link roundup before but have found myself particularly moved by some recent reads, so I thought I’d share them:

Smacksy won my heart with this post about how to win the nickname “Grandpa” at four years old.  I went on to read almost her whole archives, laughing out loud in my office as I did so.

Danielle LaPorte’s words about the Initiated Woman brought tears to my eyes, of both identification and aspiration.

Amanda Magee writes about watching her girls grow, gorgeously invoking that “primal keening” about time’s passage that I think about constantly and ending with a sentence that I felt deep in my chest.

Jen Lee’s posts always move me, but I particularly loved this one about the pull back to gentleness, and about giving ourselves a chance to receive.

Kelly Diels writes, in her incomporable way, of the gifts that fear and loneliness hold, and I find myself nodding, nodding, nodding.

Also, I am reading Carol Edgarian’s upcoming Three Stages of Amazement and ….. wow.  Just, wow.  Extraordinary.