Fear itself: Learning to let the light back in while still in the dark
, abducted late at night, or just on their way home from school. To be alone is to be unsafe, at risk. I internalized the lesson.
Not even the grocery store is safe any more: A loaf of bread suddenly costs almost twice as much and yet has shrunk, the slices now fitting too neatly into the toaster. When you have ever-hungry teenagers, you notice these things. All of that fear that I’d been taught to carry as a girl and as a woman, she carried for me, and she bared her teeth at it. I could go anywhere alone because I was never really alone. There was no more worrying. She did the worrying for me.poet Mary Oliver
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