This weekend was our annual visit to Conway to celebrate the end of the year. I’ve got a post in my head that I want to write about the adaptability of traditions and the tension between ritual and new adventures. So, I will save details for that. But while I was gone, two great things happened. Both, enormous thrills. In fact you could say I can die now.
The first:
This was in response to a photograph of Grace reading Are You There Me, It’s Me Margaret? that I instagrammed (see below).
The second was when Rebecca Woolf, whose blog Girl’s Gone Child was one of the very first I read and who remains one of my all-time favorite writers here (and anywhere – her book, Rockabye: From Wild to Child
The truth is the last few days in my real-life world haven’t been the easiest, so it was a timely, salient reminder this weekend that this online world can bring kindness, light, and connection. I encourage you to visit and read Girl’s Gone Child if you don’t already. Rebecca is downright wonderful.
That is a wonderful feeling- to feel seen and heard by people you admire. I jumped for joy with you when I saw Judy Blume’s tweet here!
So happy for you!!
Oh my goodness! I can’t believe you got a tweet from Judy Blume. And I was so thrilled that I was directed to Rebecca Wolf’s site after reading your exciting news on FB. I read Rockabye ages ago and someone Rebecca fell off my radar. I can’t wait to get reacquainted!
What I love most about that picture (and, wow, there is a lot to love–the lighting, the gesture of Grace’s hand towards the hands on the cover, just for starters) is that it’s a library book. Something tells me that if she noticed, Judy Blume would be happy for that as well.