Itsa Village

A Pride of Crones

You know I'm a language lover. 

I've been playing with words having to do with 'old' for some time. I've enjoyed using "tribe" to describe my circle of friends.
But the other day I was thinking of collective nouns, like flock of sheep or a murder of crows... 
A tribe of crones didn't sound all that good to me, but a Pride of Crones does! Or a Pride of Elders. Yes, please.

What do you think?

"Life Will Break You"

“Life will break you.

Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning.

You have to love. You have to feel.

It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up.

And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness.

 

― Louise Erdrich (recipient of 2021 Pulitzer Prize)