More journaling... and sharing a book I recently finished!
When I saw "The Mermaid Chair" I had wanted to read it (I LOVED "The Secret Life of Bees"), but I only recently got the opportunity.
Since I didn't know anything about this book, I was surprised to find out that a central theme in it is MLC and infidelity. The main character goes back home to help her mom and has an affair. Quite honestly, I found the first 2/3rd of the book really annoying. The main character seemed really selfish and silly, and I thought the story didn't hold well together. But there were a couple of passages from the book I wanted to share....
"I felt amazed at the choosing one had to do, over and over, a million times daily-- choosing love, then choosing it again, how loving and being in love could be so different..."
"Each day we pick our way through unfamilar terrain. Hugh and I did not resume our old marriage.... rather we laid it aside and began a whole new one."
There were few other passages that I think most of us here could relate to, but those are just a couple I jotted down and wanted to share.
There is no arriving, ever. It is all a continual becoming.
