#ann childs

[glovelylovely]

LANE'S GAYBC'S (4/26)

D IS FOR DESERT OF THE HEART

"'I live in the desert of the heart,' Evelyn said quietly. 'I can't love the whole damned world.' 'Love me, Evelyn.' 'I do.' [...] The storm was a simple force that could be met and challenged, a welcome violation of the desert. Even the skidding gravel and the sudden disappearances of the road could not shake her confidence. Then, as they dropped over the crest of a hill, the rain stopped, and before them was a valley of brilliant, burning sunlight, arched with rainbows, edged with lightning. Its beauty broke into Evelyn's vision like an explosion. 'This is the desert of the heart,' Ann said quietly."

[glovelylovely]

a sentiment from Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule that really spoke to me. when Ann is wrapping gifts for the less fortunate for Christmas, the passage reads, “childbirth without pain, motherhood without guilt, mother without child.”

after making this, i gave and encouraged my followers to give to One Simple Wish, a charity that grants children’s wishes all year round, and so i am noting it here as well :-)

from december 18th, 2023.

[tresvagas]

'So there's a new arrival, is there?' It was a woman's voice, young and mock cheerful. 'Delivered, as every one of them is to this house, full grown and female out of our All Father's racked brain. And she looks like me.' There were only two of them, Walter struggling up out of a deep armchair and the girl whose voice Evelyn had heard. She stood in a cage of sunlight by the bay window. Evelyn smiled, consciously amused and invulnerable because the girl was as young as a student; but as she turned, embarrassed and apologetic, to Evelyn, Evelyn was startled.

Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule