100 Days of Gladness: Day 35

WORDS: The Life Rafts Made by Writers

tinalear
3 min readJun 5, 2024
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There are too many to name — the writers who have saved my life.
But they’re out there. And they have no idea.

Sometimes even I had no idea.
No clue how close I was to drowning until I read the passage in The Poisonwood Bible where one of the daughters laments to her mother that she has no life of…

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tinalear

Novelist. Poet. Musician. Buddhist. Quilter. Animal lover. Visible grownup. Hidden child. Secret dancer when all alone. Makes good bread.