Women can endure things and keep going because our lives are made up of small practical physical tasks, and no matter how lonely or sad or humiliated you are, you do the dishes, or wash the clothes, and you come to the end of a small task and see a small result.
— Helen Garner, One Day I’ll Remember This: Diaries 1987–1995.
Notes: Portrait of Helen Garner from The New Daily
Dave, she’s growing on me (considerably)! True words spoken by a woman who knows.
Smiling. This one was for you Kiki!
You DO get to know me, don’t you?!
Sure do! And I’m blessed!
Me also.
Preach!!
Laughing.
So true! It’s those little tasks that often keep us going. The day my aunt passed away, we stopped in at my cousin’s place to see how she was doing after losing her mom, and she was scrubbing the floors. That’s how we handle grief in our family. We clean.
Thanks for sharing Darlene. Moved.
she is clearly a realist, who sees the world with knowing eyes
that she is….
Truth
Oh, thank god for housework!
Laughing…
Feels right!
I’ve come to see these little tasks as saving graces. And I find them self soothing.
Esam probably appreciate that!!!
Of course he does!
or, there’s vodka!
LAUGHING!