Tabitha

“It seems to me now that temperance is the very soul of pleasure.”

“Most importantly, don’t be afraid to talk about submitting! Publishing is the complicated, unwieldy, but essential system that determines readers’ ability to access our work. If we don’t talk about it, the big questions will haunt us, drawing a divide between the initiated and the uninitiated. Instead of keeping the path to publication a

“This family, of whom it is uniquely true that they are chosen by God to carry forward His will for humankind, must be as unhappy as any family could be. When we consider what the favor of God can look like, Jacob and his sons should surely be borne in mind.”

Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson, page 206 (talking about the saga of Joseph’s

“I don’t believe in proofs of God. Proofs are human things based in the logic of materiality. But it seems to me what we know as beauty must be the expression of God’s very nature. Unlike the arts we make, which are always open to interpretation, this sort of loveliness is purified of anything like thought. It is what it is—and isn’t that the name