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9 years ago @ The Toast - Holding Hope: On Being... · 2 replies · +121 points

"...but what a gift, to be 103 years old and your family’s still not ready to let you go. " ::bursts into tears::
These are the pieces which remind me of what I'll miss from The Toast the most.
Still - that I was introduced to another writer today - another Mills Girl, at that!!!! - and can now watch for her books is a gift. Thank you. ♥

9 years ago @ The Toast - Autumn Island: A Short... · 0 replies · +12 points

What a lovely start to the day. Thank you.

9 years ago @ The Toast - "I Know What Clean Sme... · 0 replies · +13 points

Somewhere this woman has met my Dad who has been convinced that cleaning means one is to leave puddles of bleach - and Pine-Sol - on bathroom surfaces. Clearly, it's not clean unless you lose the ability to smell anything else.

9 years ago @ The Toast - The Convert Series: Ke... · 0 replies · +6 points

I am DYING to know what that YA series is...

9 years ago @ The Toast - The Convert Series: Ma... · 0 replies · +7 points

“Blessed is the spot, and the house, and the place, and the city, and the heart..." Yeah. That hit me right in my heart, and I'm not sure why... but I know I've felt... those nameless things with music and places and having a framework and a prayer language for them (which I am *going* to steal) helps me not just stand there and weep.

These Conversion series are just my FAVORITE, favorite thing. And all the comments, too. Thanks.

9 years ago @ The Toast - "Happens All the Time"... · 0 replies · +115 points

But it’s not fine. My rule-abiding politeness, my inner drive to keep the peace, my outwardly even temper, none of these things will necessarily save me. I won’t get to hide behind my Master’s degree in a mugshot.

This. This is the WORST. That moment when you realize that racism cannot be reasoned with, cannot be argued with, cannot be moved around or moved through or dealt with as you deal with everything else in your life, with logic, with reason, with intellect. You can't talk it out, you can't hug it out, you can't... even. It knocks you down, and stares at you, and dares you to exist, and you just try to breathe.

Beautifully evocative - painful - writing. Thank you.

9 years ago @ The Toast - The Hunt · 0 replies · +19 points

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I'm straight up envious.
As adults we hid eggs for my adopted youngest siblings and later, for my sister's kids, but weren't allowed this heathen indulgence when we were growing up. We need someone irrepressibly mad like this writer's father to make it happen. I so love that they still indulge him into their thirties, and thereby indulge themselves, a little, in that extended adolescence.

10 years ago @ The Toast - The Only Ways To Say G... · 1 reply · +16 points

AMEN. I would be so happy if I could remember how to cast on between projects. Why is that so hard???

11 years ago @ The Toast - Swinging with Absalom · 0 replies · +8 points

THIS. YES. Thank you, Lyz, I can't even tell you how much.

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