Kaitlin (she/her)May 10

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I've been (slowly, because it's an emotionally intense journey) reading the Tillerman Cycle of young adult novels by Cynthia Voigt. Because I couldn't remember her, even though in a high school English paper that turned up in a box on my porch, I mentioned her as a favorite author.

I think I couldn't remember her because her novels hit with pinpoint accuracy a lot of the feelings I experienced growing up in an abusive family. They resonated so much that she was a favorite at the time, but my brain couldn't hold on to any information about the books because it was too real and too much to process while I still wasn't safe.

(this is all just to introduce a mother's day quote...)

#CynthiaVoigt #YAlit #YoungAdultFiction #YoungAdult #CPTSD

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Anyway, at the beginning of Voigt's award winning YA novel "Dicey's Song," this is the most beautiful quote about parenting I've ever read:

"Home. Home with their momma's momma, who was also a Tillerman. Home: a home with plenty of room for the four children in the shabby farmhouse, room inside, room outside, and the kind of room within Gram too--Dicey had seen Gram and how she listened when Maybeth sang, how she talked with James, how her eyes smiled at the things Sammy said and did--the kind of room that was what they really needed." (1)

I reviewed the first book here:
https://outside.ofa.dog/user/raveller/review/38379/s/40-years-ago-someone-was-writing-the-child-liberation-connection-parenting-book-needed-in-this-moment#anchor-38379

#mothers_day

raveller's review of Homecoming - Outside of a Dog

Where it's not too dark to read

May 10 at 7:08pmWeb