I walk among crows and I sleep with my dog. I will, if left to myself, do nothing but read books, one line at a time, sometimes the same line over and over again, all day long. Of course I do other things. I eat apples. I sit on the countertop to read the newspaper. …
(continued from yesterday’s) We talked about children, sometimes. How we would sing to them, how it would feel to hold them at night. Just the feel of it, the need we would give to it; hope, forgiveness, joy in a world that otherwise would not give it. Realness and kindness that acknowledged cruelty, lived with …
Whenever we hear of a domestic violence situation we ask why she puts up with it. By far the most common question asked about violence in relationships is: ‘why doesn’t she just leave?’. We respond this way out of a gut feeling, a revulsion and hope all twisted up into one emotion: we want the woman …
Numbers on domestic violence.
