Something from my current reading

"She had been getting ready for her great journey to the horizons in search of people; it was important to all the world that she should find them and they find her. But she had been whipped like a cur dog, and run off down a back road after things. It was all according to the way you see things. Some people could look at a mud-puddle and see an ocean with ships. But Nanny belonged to that other kind that loved to deal in scraps. Here Nanny had taken the biggest thing God ever made, the horizon -- for no matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you -- and pinched it in to such a little bit of a thing that she could tie it about her granddaughter's neck tight enough to choke her. She hated the old women who had twisted her so in the name of love. "

-- Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

zer_netmouse tweets of the day

• 14:06 Spent last night and this morning reading Maximum Ice by Kay Kenyon. Fabulous book. Will now have to check out the rest of her work. #
• 14:07 Also of note: the main characters in Maximum Ice are Roma Gypsies and a strong supporting role (and programmer!) is a young black woman. #
• 14:08 @SMarieGay Awesome! I remember sledding... always worth the cold for the hot chocolate after. :) #

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