The Resolute Woman

Author: resolutewoman

  • Do your part

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    “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world,” Anne Frank once said. We recently discussed a book about Anne Frank at a Girl Scout summer book club meeting. –Joy

  • Keep it from happening again

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    “What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again,” Anne Frank once said.            We recently discussed a book about Anne Frank at a Girl Scout summer book club. –Joy

  • A world of peace for every child

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    We recently discussed a book about Anne Frank at a Girl Scout summer book club. We talked with the girls about being upstanders instead of bystanders—and how every child deserves to be safe and loved—and have enough food—and live in peace. –Joy

  • The joy of walking

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    The writer Virginia Woolf walked as a cure to depression—and often she came up with scenes and plots for her books during her walks, says Kerri Andrews in her book Wanderers. “Oh, the joy of walking,” Woolf once wrote. “I’ve never felt it so strong in me…the trance like swimming, flying through the air, the…

  • A cure for physical distress

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    Walking can strain the body, Kerri Andrews admits in her book Wanderers. However, Andrews writes about Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt’s cure for her physical distress. ”All that was necessary to allow her to move again with ease was a good night’s sleep and fine Scottish whiskey, with which she ‘rubbed my ankle and knee…which did it…

  • Walking is a good use of time

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    In her book Wanderers, Kerri Andrews quotes Linda Cracknell about the benefits of walking. Walking, Cracknell says, “helps keep alive older ways of being…. “There was always something to watch, some association to remember, changes in light and sound and fragments of poetry and local lore to think about…. “Long hours walking were not time…

  • Women walking

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    I’m walking. I love to walk in the morning. Walking helps me get my day off to a good start. It also helped me survive the pandemic, and it’s calming while we’re preparing to do a major foundation repair and house remodeling. Women have been walking for centuries I’ve discovered while reading Wanderers—A History of…

  • The comfort of friends

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    I’m feeling anxious. We’re getting ready to move everything out of our house—including the two of us and our dog Jack. Yikes! It’s necessary because our house needs extensive foundation repairs—and we’ve decided to go ahead and do major remodeling, too. The project will take six or seven months. Because of my anxiety, my counselor…

  • The power of harmony

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    I am still going through “stuff”—getting ready for a major house renovation. I’ve been sorting through boxes of my mother’s papers, and I found a quote my mother, an English teacher, liked. William Wordsworth said, “While with an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into…

  • The cost of love

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    In her book Oh Beautiful, Ann Napolitano talks about “the beauty and the cost of love.” How true! Love is beautiful—but sometimes it requires work, and sometimes it is costly.