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“The discipline of joy is about survival. You make your own joy- this is the work my mother taught me. Little factory, little mine of reminders- find, make, joy to sustain multiple life- times: the blanket made beautiful from patterned found scraps; the broth of tap water and ginger and bones. What fullness my mother earned and could stuff inside an envelope to send each month back home.” — Michelle Peñaloza
The discipline of joy is about survival.
You make your own joy-
this is the work my mother taught me.
Little factory, little mine of reminders-
find, make, joy to sustain multiple life-
times: the blanket made beautiful
from patterned found scraps;
the broth of tap water and ginger and bones.
What fullness my mother earned
and could stuff inside an envelope
to send each month back home.