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July 11 - July 11, 2022
She’s definitely crazy. She’s still family, though, and in this family we don’t chastise the crazy, we embrace them and love them for their eccentricities.”
“Honey, there’s no shame in not being normal,” Edith said, surprising me with her tone. “The shame is fighting what you are. You know what you are and what you do. Why do you care what other people think about you?”
Sometimes Clove’s mind is a frightening place – like a house of mirrors at a carnival, or a bag full of really angry cats.
“Please, this family doesn’t have a tact gene,” she argued. “We’ve got a busybody gene, a cooking gene, a petulant gene. The tact gene just didn’t skip our entire generation; it skipped our entire gene pool.” Sometimes, Thistle just has a way with words.

