The Resolute Woman

Author: resolutewoman

  • Love what is here

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    Kate Bowler, the writer, advise us to forget “what could have been.” “Blessed are you who are attempting to love what is here, what is now. You who recognize the wonder and pain looking at life’s rearview mirror, at those things that are gone.“

  • A simple universe?

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    “We yearn for the universe to be simple, to be one thing or another,” writes Lauren LeBlanc in The Boston Globe. “But it’s not. Its contradictory nature is integral to its abundance.”

  • Be positive!?

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    Test negative. Be positive. I had my patience tested. I’m negative. I heard both of these lines during a Zoom meeting recently. Since then, I’m determined to be more positive—and more patient. –Joy

  • Comic and uplifting

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    Life is “by turns crushing and restorative, busy and boring, comic and uplifting,” writes Kathryn Schulz, author of Lost & Found: A Memoir.

  • Look at yourself

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    Lucy learns new things about herself in Elizabeth Strout’s book Oh, William!. In an NPR interview, Strout comments: “You always think the other person’s not behaving the way you want them to, but, then you look at yourself and you realize: Well, maybe I’m not behaving the way they want me to, either.”

  • Endless pools of unknowability

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    In her book Oh, William!, Elizabeth Strout writes about William and Lucy, who used to be married to each other. An NPR interviewer commented, “Lucy and William knew each other very well, but they didn’t know each other as well as they thought they did. “Has you ever experienced this?” “Yes, I have,” Strout answered,…

  • We are mysteries

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    In her book Oh, William!, Elizabeth Strout writes about William and Lucy—and about knowing and not knowing—other people and ourselves, too. At the end of the book, Strout concludes: But when I think Oh William!, don’t I mean Oh Lucy! too. Don’t I mean Oh Everyone, O dear Everybody in this whole wide world, we…

  • Practice perseverance

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    There’s a pandemic, of course. And, I’m tired of it, of course. But, no matter, I plan to keep moving forward as much as possible. I’m practicing perseverance. As Marie Curie once said, “We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.” –Joy

  • Chaos or community?

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    “Where do we go from here? Chaos or community?” Martin Luther King once said. “Is this the darkness of the tomb or the darkness of the womb?” Valarie Kaur, founder of the Revolutionary Love Project, once said. I pick community and the light of new life—not chaos and darkness. I read both of these quotes…

  • Think outside your walls

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    I am writing letters for Beto, talking to friends on the phone and smiling at everyone I meet when I take my morning walk. I am tired of this pandemic and tired of hibernating, but I am trying my best to stay connected to the world. As John Ruskin once said, “A man or woman…