Young women today don't have to choose, as their foremothers did. They don't have to be pigeonholed into the staid and static roles they've always had to select from, either candle maker or Hive Matriarch. They can be both. I think. I don't really know, I guess. Isn't a hive basically just a big candle you never light? That seems reasonable to me.

It's very weird to have a child leave your house to go to college and then come back. They wanna talk about Maoism a lot. Like, a lot. And you don't know if they still have their old chores? It's not clear where they rest in the hierarchy. You don't know where you rest in it, either.

Their Room was Their Room and then it just became A Void and now it's Their Room again. In a week it will essentially disappear from the house, lifted up and out, gone.

I walk by the door which is sometimes Their Door, and as long as I don't knock, who can say? Let it be that they are home.

(CW)TB out.