The Wild Girls

The Next War

It will take place,
it will take time,
it will take life,
and waste them.

Peace Vigils

My friend, self, fool,
have you been standing
with a lighted candle
for five years
in the rain?
What for?
I guess to show
a candle can keep burning
in the rain

have you been standing
with a lighted candle
for five years
in the rain?
What for?
I guess to show
a candle can keep burning
in the rain.

Reading is a collaboration, an act of participation.

It was a genuine social phenomenon, as is the worship of rock stars and the whole subculture of popular music, which offers the adolescent/young adult both an exclusive in-group and a shared social experience. And it was about books.

We want books everybody is reading (and nobody finishes) so we can talk about them.

She did not hate Bela ten Belen for leading the raid, killing Dua’s Daughter, stealing her and Mal and the others. Men did that, nomads as well as City men. They raided, killed people, took food, took slaves. That was the way men were. It would be as stupid to hate them for it as to love them for it.

Nata, kindly treated most of her life, treated others kindly.

Her sister was alive and she was alive. That was enough. That filled her heart.

Crown men, unused to carrying burdens, they found the children heavy, even the little ones.