All moms have treasured ways to spend the few precious hours they have to themselves, curling up with a book… — Robin Wall Kimmerer
All moms have treasured ways to spend the few precious hours they have to themselves, curling up with a book or sewing, but I mostly went to the water, the birds and the wind and the quiet were what I needed.
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