I desperately need a time-out from my life.\u00a0 I wish I knew how to get one.\u00a0 I read the Secret Life of Bees again recently, and found some paragraphs that were comforting.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cI started thinking about the world loaded with disguised Marys sitting all over the place and hidden red hearts tucked about that people could rub and touch, only we didn\u2019t recognize them.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 p142
\n\u201cThe first week at August\u2019s was a consolation, a pure relief.\u00a0 The world will give you that once in a while, a brief time-out; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody else dabs mercy on your beat-up life.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 p82<\/p><\/blockquote>\nFrom The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I desperately need a time-out from my life.\u00a0 I wish I knew how to get one.\u00a0 I read the Secret Life of Bees again recently, and found some paragraphs that were comforting. \u201cI started thinking about the world loaded with … Continue reading