The Resolute Woman

Author: resolutewoman

  • A new church

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    On September 4, 2021, Edward J. Solon’s letter to the editor was published in the Dallas Morning News. “I believe it is time for the women to Texas to create a church that happens to provide services for women,” Solon wrote. “All the services that are provided to women would be considered religious activities and…

  • Texas

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    Where a virus has reproductive rights, but a woman doesn’t

  • Your own map

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    “Crucial to finding the way is this: there is no beginning or end,” writes poet Joy Harjo. “You must make your own map.”

  • We can do hard things

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    When confronted with health issues this summer, I told my husband Jerry: “We can do hard things.” And, we can. And, we have. And, we will. As the writer John Updike once said, “We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.” –Joy

  • Be patient

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    We’ve been waiting for my husband Jerry to feel better. Now for his surgery. And, of course, for this pandemic to end. We wait sometimes with patience. Sometimes without much patience. Patience is required. As Ghandi once said, “To lose patience is to lose the battle.” –Joy

  • Pay attention

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    I have always liked these words from poet Mary Oliver. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. –Joy

  • Nuance has been incinerated

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    Tracy Dahlby, a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin, argues, in an article in The Dallas Morning News, that this country needs a better literary infrastructure. In his article, Dahlby quotes Frank Bruni, a New York Times columnist. Nuance, Bruni says, “has been incinerated by today’s hot takes….Much of what I read…

  • Candy corn, not vegetables

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    We all need to read more. Tracy Dahlby, a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin, argues, in an article in The Dallas Morning News, that this country needs a better literary infrastructure. In his article, Dahlby says that, according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Americans invest 16 minutes a…

  • A better literary infrastructure?

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    Tracy Dahlby, a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin, argues, in an article in The Dallas Morning News, that this country needs a better literary infrastructure. Today, no worker in words rates the kind of status that Ernest Hemingway had during his lifetime, Dahlby says. “Our quicksilver, digital lives don’t easily tolerate…

  • Be yourself

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    “For so long, I tried to be what they wanted me to be. But now I just want to be myself.” My book club just read Sue Monk Kidd’s book The Book of Longings, and this is one of my favorite quotes from the book. –Joy