"lumbering our minds with literature..."

"Somewhere between prayer and revolution....:"

"This is what we were all doing, lumbering our minds with literature that only served to cloud the really vital situation spread before our eyes...I am simply smothered and sickened with advantages. It is like eating a sweet dessert the first thing in the morning. This, then, was the difficulty, this sweet dessert in the morning and the assumption that the sheltered, educated girl has nothing to do with the bitter poverty and the social maladjustment which is all around her, and which, after all, cannot be concealed, for it breaks through poetry and literature in a burning tide which overwhelms her." -Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull-House







Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Brian = 29


This weekend Brian and I were talking about the idea of starting a women's center in Franklinton. It is something that the women in the neighborhood think about a lot. While we were brainstorming, he said, "wouldn't it be great if the men in the community took over cleaning the women's center every week? It would be so symbolic!"

Hope you had a fun and relaxing birthday, Bri. I am the luckiest.
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