Big Feelings

“There is something threatening about a woman who is not occupied with children. There is something at-loose-ends feeling about such a woman. What is she going to do instead? What sort of trouble will she make?

Motherhood - Sheila Heti

This is really why I made my daughters learn to garden—so they would always have a mother to love them, long after I am gone.”

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants - Robin Wall Kimmerer