Words&Dirt

“It’s what happen at home that you try to protect, as best you can, for as long as you can.”

––Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014, by Alice Munro, pg. 303

“We childless ones, whether through bravery or cowardice, constitute a kind of existential vanguard, forced by our own choices to face the naked question of existence with fewer illusions, or at least fewer consolations, than the rest of humanity, forced to prove to ourselves anew every day that extinction does not negate meaning.”

–– “The End of the Line,” by Tim Kreider, Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids, ed. Meghan Daum, pg. 273