Date Posted:Sat, June 22 2024, 3:00:32 Author: Janet Subject: QOTD
Well, this week started off to be ghostly, like the first two quotes, but as I wandered through Drums, it became first meetings, with foreshadowing of things to come. I guess that's kind of ghostly.....I know re-meting Sgt. Murchison certainly invoked ghosts....Hope you enjoyed the week.
Quote of the Day for Saturday, June 22, 2024
The following quote is from Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter20, The White Raven. Copyright 1997, all rights reserved.
The elder lady was Nawayenne, not Grabrielle’s grandmother as I had thought, but rather Nacognaweto’s. This lady was light-boned, thin, and bent with rheumatism, but bright eyed as the sparrow she so strongly resembled. She wore a small leather bag tied round her neck, ornamented with a rough green stone pierced for stringing, and the spotted tail feathers of a woodpecker. She had a larger bag, this one of cloth, tied at her waist. She saw me looking at the green stains on the rough cloth, and smiled, showing two prominent yellow front teeth.
………Moved by curiosity, and an impulse I couldn’t describe, I asked Grabrielle about the old lady’s amulet, hoping this wasn’t an insufferable breech of good manners.
“Grandmere est…….” She hesitated, looking for the right French word, but I already knew.
“Pas docteur,” I said, “et pas sorciere, magicienne. Elle est…..” I hesitated too; there really wasn’t a suitable word for it in French, after all.
“We say she is a singer,” Berthe put in shyly in French. “We call it shaman; her name, it means ‘It may be; it will happen.’”
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Kathy, you're right about cronehood! I used to put a rinse on my hair to cover the gray, until one day I realized I had earned these gray hairs! That mental shift started me accepting age changes and making the most of them. While I didn't enjoy hot flashes, I did enjoy the end of my "courses", and I'm learning to accept the hairs on my chin! I no longer feel the urgency to "get things done" that I had in my youth, either. -- Janet, Sat, June 22 2024, 10:50:25
