They say that when you don’t have anything good to say, say nothing at all. Well, I can’t do that, can I?
For today’s post I intended to reignite the Cheroes series with some new gems I’ve found, but it’s been a long week and I’ve run out of energy, so instead I thought I’d leave you with a short verse from one of my favorite Cheroes*, Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay.
This poem sums up exactly how I feel about my life right now. More about that later though.
Second Fig
Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand:
Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
* In case you missed the National Women’s History Month series, a Chero is a childless/childfree hero.
I loved the poem!! I I also read about another feisty Cheroe, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, who worked tirelessly to save the Everglades. She was featured in a book by Susan S. Lang titled Women without Children. It is very much worth at least looking at those pages of the book which covered her story.
Great, great poem… can totally identify.