I … understand why the saints were rarely married women. I am convinced it has nothing inherently to do, as I once supposed, with chastity or childre… - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation.

With a new awareness, both painful and humorous, I begin to understand why the saints were rarely married women. I am convinced it has nothing inherently to do, as I once supposed, with chastity or children. It has to do primarily with distractions. The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls — woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.

There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.