Books about daughters

One of my shorter reading lists (though it is connected to many other lists) was "daughters".

It didn't start out as its own list. When planning reading, I kept confusing The Heretic's Daughter and Galileo's Daughter. Yes, Galileo was tried for heresy and forced to recant, but that wasn't in the title; The Heretic's Daughter refers to a witchcraft trial. 

I noticed a title pattern, and there were six with no other connection. Mostly, I had read reviews or something about them that made me think they were interesting so I added them on Goodreads.

Well, I do love a theme.

The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent

The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss

Darwin, His Daughter, and Human Evolution by Randal Keynes

Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel

The Memory-Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards 

Fire-Keeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley

In that configuration they connect to reading lists relating to complicated relationships between Asian parents and children, trauma, and adoption. Poised between the losses of both parents, I have been trying to catch up on them, but this was the first of those sections that I actually completed reading.

I recently completed the sub-section on Asian parents, which I mentioned, but I know there will be at least one other post later. For now, this seemed like a good topic leading up to Father's Day. 

Some of them have come up before. 

The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter and The Heretic's Daughter were read fairly close together for Spooky Season and got written then. The Strange Case and its series got a second post because of how incredibly annoying I found it, but The Heretic's Daughter was pretty gripping. I actually just adjusted my Goodreads' ratings for each in retrospect.

https://sporkful.blogspot.com/2025/03/spooky-season-witches.html  

https://sporkful.blogspot.com/2025/03/spooky-season-series.html 

https://sporkful.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-sheer-unmitigated-gall.html 

One of the books will come up later. Fire-Keeper's Daughter was about family issues, but it may relate more to The Seed Keeper, which then relates to Braiding Sweetgrass which has some other parallels. At some point, when I am ready to write about my Native American Heritage reading, there's going to be a lot. 

To be fair, Fire-Keeper's Daughter was added later than the other five. It was published in 2021, and I know from other posts I had this list at least in 2022. Still, the title format seemed to fit. 

(It did get a mention in the music post: https://sporkful.blogspot.com/2026/01/songs-for-native-american-heritage-month.html) 

I have not written about Darwin, His Daughter, and Human Evolution and Galileo's Daughter exactly, but I wrote about some science reading last year. Reading those two books cast everything in a new light, especially the chapters on Galileo. 

https://sporkful.blogspot.com/2025/06/science-reading-list.html 

Learning more about Darwin, at least from the Keynes book, was mainly an interesting look at how all of these famous names were connected. This happens in other times and places too, but is always kind of fascinating. Also, chronic digestive problems.

The review that interested me did not sound like the book I read, so that may be part of my ambivalence. 

I also found a children's book when I was looking for it, though Etty is a different daughter than Annie, the focus of the adult book.  

Etty Darwin and the Four Pebble Problem by Lauren Soloy. It's okay.

Galileo's Daughter resonated with me much more. I think it was better-written, but maybe it was more the sense of connection. There were places I had been and places I wanted to go and I felt a kinship. Shortly after finishing it we went to the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. There was a statue out front... well, there were three, but there was one that I knew right away was him and it was like finding an old friend.

https://sporktogo.blogspot.com/2026/01/los-angeles-griffith-observatory.html 

Finally, I did not love the people in The Memory-Keeper's Daughter or their choices, but as I am working on a module about mental health treatment for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, I keep thinking back to a scene where a nurse looks around an institution and cannot leave the newborn baby girl there. It's easy to forget now how common it was then, but there are still effects, and it isn't completely done.

There is other media that comes back too; I know I will write more about that.

Have these books shed any light on my own relationships with my parents? It's probably too early to say. There are still other books to read.

I can see how all of it enriches each other, and that insights don't always come the way you expect them, or when you might expect them. I don't see my reading methods changing any time soon.

That's a lot of links already, but here's one more:

https://sporkful.blogspot.com/2022/11/deciding.html 

Who's on top?

At times you will see it said about various groups that they are not a monolith ; of course that is true. They are made up of individuals and those individuals have differences.

Some groups do seem to be more united than others. 

One factor in this can be the resistance faced for dissent. Sometimes the price for speaking out is high enough that it discourages people from complaining, even people who are very discouraged. That can be a reason for holding some optimism that some groups may not be as bad as they seem, but it may just signal a problem with cowardice and inertia.

It is also possible that people outside the group don't care about the distinctions. That may be convenience; if you want to believe that the other side is wrong and bad, noticing details about individuals will probably only get in the way. Latching onto the most reprehensible aspect of the fringe and deciding that's how they all are can work pretty well.

That factionalism is one aspect of dominator culture, but there is something else that is relevant, which is a tendency to take shortcuts along previously existing vectors of prejudice. This works because they are already embedded into a structure where some positions are viewed as inferior and superior and the structure tends to be accepted subconsciously. 

There is usually more than one system in play and the interactions can sometimes skew things. Add in different people with different levels of connection and -- while things aren't exact -- patterns emerge.

Consider the earlier posts this week.

https://sporkful.blogspot.com/2026/06/this-will-seem-like-diversion-but.html 

I suspected that part of Dan's annoyance with me was because I wasn't even an attractive girl. 

There are people who doubt the existence of "pretty privilege"; I believe in it, but know it has its limits. 

If a gorgeous girl knew more songs than him, I think he still would have been annoyed. Misogyny (which sometimes might be more helpfully called male supremacy) would probably still be stronger. However, a pretty girl doing well (but not quite as well as him) or agreeing with him would be more impressive.

I acknowledge this is somewhat speculative, but I have seen some things.

https://sporkful.blogspot.com/2026/06/dominator-culture-all-around.html  

This was so unnecessary. If you must talk, talk about the match or your opponent or so many other options. If that moment is about demonstrating that the white men are back in charge and there is nothing you can do about it, I guess insulting a Black woman makes sense.

(Of course, then acknowledging that makes someone being transgender an insult, which I don't want to do, but it was clearly intended as an insult and is also not true, which is why I refer to it that way. Terrible people lead to a lot of frustration.)

Anyway, it becomes quite normal under these circumstances that you might see people promoting incompetent, almost demented white men, even when there would be a lot of good reasons for them not to. 

It doesn't mean they only do that or that they all do it in the same way -- not a monolith -- but there are patterns they are following, consciously or not. 

This will seem like a diversion, but...

I'm going to write a little about this guy I used to know.

His name was Dan. To relieve any suspicions or concerns, let me specify that I never went to school with him and he is not married to any of my friends or fellow coworkers.

This is really about one specific night, where we were playing a game.

Dan was really good at games. He knew a lot of parlor games like call and response games and variations on Fruit Bowl.

This particular night, we were playing a game where a word was chosen and the two teams took turns singing bits of song lyrics with that word in it. You needed to know at least four words including that one. For example, let's say the word was "dance" and you wanted to use "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)".. singing "Everybody dance now," would not be enough. Do you know that the next word is "yeah"?

That game sticks in my mind for two reasons. Perhaps they both relate to how competition can bring out our ugly sides.

One word used was "Shenandoah." Ruth used "Oh Shenandoah", the obvious choice. I responded with a phrase from "Take Me Home, Country Roads"... "Shenandoah River. Life is old there..."

Ruth insisted that they were different words, because she was ending it on Shenan-DOH, not pronouncing the last syllable. I thought that was the stupidest thing I'd ever heard, but she could not be convinced.

To be fair to her, earlier versions of the song were sometimes referring to an Oneida chief, which is how we get from the wide Missouri to West Virginia, Mountain Mama.

It's still the same word.

That annoyed me, but I remember the game more clearly because of my sense that I was annoying Dan.

Please understand, with my memory and my love of music and specifically my deep memory for music, this is exactly my type of game.

Something I understand better now is that it makes sense that a guy who specializes in games that no one else has played or even heard of before is going to like winning. I get that.

However, I am also very sensitive to being annoying, having a deep fear that being annoying is my basic nature.

I kept sensing that I was annoying him, especially when we were on the word "rose".

So many songs mention roses.

You need to know at least four words, but sometimes memory can't bring up just those four; you need more. I remember that for "The Rose", where that word only comes up once at the very end. I needed to start at "Just remember".

When we were almost out of rose songs I remembered one more that I had to work out; I had only heard it once in a movie.

In Emma, Gwyneth Paltrow in the title role sings "Did You Not Hear My Lady". It has a line, "shaming the rose and the lily, for she is twice as fair."

This is how I know this happened in 1996.

You might think that maybe he was really annoyed at Gwyneth Paltrow, but she was not generally seen as annoying yet. I think that started sometime between her marrying and consciously uncoupling from Chris Martin.

No, I think it was me. I kind of blamed it on my having to take a minute to come up with the words... that thinking out loud process. 

Now I think it was partly annoyance that anyone at all knew more songs than  him, but especially that it was a girl, and not even a good-looking one.

That is partly from my having had more opportunities to observe that specific irritation that comes to men when they can't get a woman to admit she is wrong (especially because she isn't). The other part is that Dan was kind of shallow. 

He was generally regarded as good-looking: tall, pronounced cheekbones, and impressively (but not obviously carefully) styled hair.

At the time, I knew a lot less about sexism, but I was fully aware that I was not considered attractive, that it mattered more for girls, and that no one was asking me out. Given those disadvantages, isn't it only fair that I at least have a good memory and know lots of songs? Is that asking too much?

If you put it that way, it sounds silly, but I suspect the irritation doesn't go away.

The big problem is that people don't think about. 

Generally, they just stay irritated and feel fully justified in that.

Dominator culture all around

There is plenty of material to explore all of the ways in which there are horrible people braying loudly all the time now. I'm sure I will spend more time on that. 

Currently I am most aware of how exhausting it is; the UFC thing is part of that.

Well, that has several parts as well, including it being one more corrupt cash grab that would have been in poor taste anyway, but more specifically I was thinking about the ignorant slander against a former first lady.

The Obamas themselves do not seem to be responding to it, which I suppose is the only dignified thing to do.

I saw one post that I want to share, from Jay Jurden:

https://x.com/JayJurden/status/2066538960864592341 

This Michelle Obama moment should teach every straight Black man, ESPECIALLY THOSE IN STANDUP COMEDY, that whenever you let transphobia slide the first cis women who get attacked are Black women. Transphobia leads directly to misogynoir in America & being transphobic = antiBlack 

This is true. There is a long, ugly history, but it's a thing.  

There are specific aspects to this truth, in that misogynoir -- the combination of anti-Blackness and misogyny -- tends to alternate between over-sexualizing and de-sexualizing Black women. That relates to taking away femininity, with only white women being worthy of it (different but similar dehumanization happens to Asian and Latina women) as well as commodifying their bodies and declaring them more animal-like, though that does happen to Black men too, just differently.

(Of course we remember the ape pictures.)

Some of it is that there is still great resentment against the Obamas for inhabiting the White House as Black people. We can see the great respect that such people have for the White House by how they react to tacky gilding and demolition, but the presidency, getting votes, not having a bunch of scandals and a general level of excellence that conservatives will not allow themselves to admit to... there is a real racist hatred out there.

(For an example of delusional hatred against the former president, see some of the replies to this post by Tomos Doran: https://x.com/portraitinflesh/status/2065333829305290881 )

While there is a specific resentment, there is also simply that --  in dominator culture -- people pick the easiest targets, homing in on a perceived "downward". 

It can lead to being grossly ignorant publicly, but it can also mean damaging a Hmong woman's fruit stand while telling her to go back to Mexico.

It's not likely to ever be intelligent and well-considered; then it might stop being hateful. 

 

Quotes for Women's History Month (March)

This is embarrassing, but I did not realize that I had collected this and never posted it. When I was looking at the May quotes, I found it.

This is even more appropriate for the week when I skipped two days do to being busy and tired. 

That sort of goes along with how this year has been going. I try and do a lot, and actually I am doing a lot, but it's never quite as polished and perfect as I want and sometimes forgotten things jump out at me.

However, if this is true of lots of people, it's probably still more true of women, of which I am one.

Here's to me!

There are repeats, which I usually try to avoid. There were quotes I didn't want to lose by Fannie Lou Hamer and Marie Curie.

Here's to them! 

3/1 "Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth." -- Shirley Chisholm

3/2 "One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am." -- Michelle Obama

3/3 "People have said over the years that the reason I did not give up my seat was because I was tired. I did not think of being physically tired. My feet were not hurting. I was tired in a different way. I was tired of seeing so many men treated as boys and not called by their proper names or titles. I was tired of seeing children and women mistreated and disrespected because of the color of their skin. I was tired of Jim Crow laws, of legally enforced racial segregation." -- Rosa Parks

3/4 "You cannot find peace by avoiding life." -- Virginia Woolf

3/5 “One must dare to be happy.” ― Gertrude Stein

3/6 “Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.” ― Simone de Beauvoir

3/7 “Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” ― Betty Friedan

3/8 "Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes." -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

3/9 "Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it." -- Emily Dickinson

3/10 "It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is to be educated." -- Edith Hamilton

3/11 "Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off." -- Fannie Lou Hamer

3/12 "Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained." -- Marie Curie

3/13 "Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again." -- Adrienne Rich

3/14 "It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences." -- Audre Lorde

3/15 "When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other." -- bell hooks

3/16 "A woman who writes has power, and a woman with power is feared." -- Gloria E. Anzaldúa

3/17 “Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.”  -- Rosalind Franklin

3/18 "Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature. There's very little if any 'me-itis.' When I get back to civilization I'm always appalled by 'me, me, me.'" -- Dian Fossey

3/19 "I've put up with too much, too long, and now I'm just too intelligent, too powerful, too beautiful, too sure of who I am finally to deserve anything less." -- Sandra Cisneros

3/20 "There is no separation. We are all from the same place. As long as there is respect and acknowledgement of connections, things continue working. When that stops we all die." -- Joy Harjo

3/21 "Above all we must realize that each of us makes a difference with our life. Each of us impacts the world around us every single day. We have a choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place - or not to bother." -- Jane Goodall

3/22 "The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them." -- Ida B. Wells

3/23 "I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity." – Eleanor Roosevelt

3/24 "No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time." -- Twyla Tharp

3/25  "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." -- Marie Curie

3/26 "There are years that ask questions and years that answer." -- Zora Neale Hurston

3/27 "The first act of insight is throw away the labels." -- Eudora Welty

3/28 "I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that." -- Anita Hill

3/29 "You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap." -- Fannie Lou Hamer

3/30 "The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source." -- Lucretia Mott

3/31 "When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when antiracism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being antagonistic to each other and both interests lose." -- Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Who's up first?

In the Sunday blog post I was critical of Mike Lee's meltdown over military religious classifications:

https://preparedspork.blogspot.com/2026/06/an-example-of-believers.html 

I spend most of my time on how it was a little late to be getting upset. There were so many terrible things that have happened to other people! Waiting until your pride has been hurt to care about something is not the best way to demonstrate your Christianity.

(Yes, I understand that definitions vary; that's what the rest of that post covered.)

I was more struck by it because of something similar from about two weeks ago.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/05/27/us-gov-subpoenas-hasan-piker-rep-summer-lee-pittsburgh/90258486007/  

Twitch streamer Hasan Piker received a subpoena from the federal government.

You may not be familiar with Piker; honestly, why should "Twitch streamer" be a thing that pertains to political influence?

You can also argue that he is not that influential. He believes he is and prominent leftists want his influence courted, but they are wrong a lot.

(A while back, a mutual had posted something defending "hasan" and I thought it showed bad judgment, but at the time I did not know that there were two: Hasan Piker and Mehdi Hasan. I am still not sure which one she meant, but I am still pretty sure it was bad judgment.) 

Anyway, all that had happened was the subpoena being served, as well as to another person, apparently relating to a trip to Cuba.

The people currently in power are not above using that power for personal vendettas; there are legitimate reasons to be concerned. However, his reaction seemed disproportionate, especially given his tendency to make incendiary remarks. If you are constantly starting some, you should expect that every now and then there will be some, right?

Of course, he mainly attacks Democrats who tend to be law-abiding, but it would be wrong to just assume that is hypocritical cowardice.

Anyway, this started a slew of leftists (including him, if I recall) saying that we are literally at the start of the Niemoller poem.  

Here's something I learned recently: it didn't start as a poem, and there would be different versions depending on the audience. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came 

You can find versions that start with Socialists. It may hit harder if you are a DSA member, but it's not definitive. What's more, it is not even relevant because...

WE ARE NOT AT "FIRST"! WE ARE LONG PAST "FIRST"! 

They have been coming for immigrants and scientists and park rangers and women and people who are not white!

In Nazi Germany they started with the disabled and people in asylums; remember Trump making fun of a reporter and announcing no more ASL interpretation? I realize there are worse things -- that is just a small point -- but... 

YOU HAVE TO BE INCREDIBLY PRIVILEGED TO THINK THAT THEY HAVE SUDDENLY BECOME A PROBLEM!

Of course, the more privilege you have, the easier it is to be unaware of things that happen.

The more privileged you are, the more any criticism or discomfort feels like persecution. 

It is one more territory shared by Trumpers and leftists. 

Quotes for Asian-American Pacific Islander Heritage Month

This May, each Friday had content related to AAPIHM. I am kind of proud of that.

I don't always manage that level of organization, as the next few weeks are going to show. However, because I want a more equitable and just society, I try and do my part in the ways that I have available.

Songs are going on through June, which affects some other things but seemed fair because I have not done as well for songs. For quotes, I sure have a lot of actors in this one. I don't know that it's bad, but it feels like there could be more of a background.

Also, there are a few whom you may notice are only Asian, not Asian-American. I still have not completely resolved whether that should count. 

Anyway, I tried.

There is one repeat, with Grace Lee Boggs on the 3rd and 31st, but she was a big part of my reading this year, and I liked both quotes. 

The Bruce Lee quote was posted the day we got back from Seattle, where his grave is, as well as Brandon's. We did not visit them, but I did think about them.

Quotes: 

5/1 “America’s democracy is not guaranteed. It is only as strong as our willingness to fight for it. To guard it and never take it for granted. And protecting our democracy takes struggle. It takes sacrifice. But there is joy in it. And there is progress. Because we, the people, have the power to build a better future.” — Kamala Harris

5/2 “That remains part of the problem—that we don't know the unpleasant aspects of American history...and therefore we don't learn the lesson those chapters have to teach us. So we repeat them over and over again.” – George Takei

5/3 “When you read Marx (or Jesus) this way, you come to see that real wealth is not material wealth and real poverty is not just the lack of food, shelter, and clothing. Real poverty is the belief that the purpose of life is acquiring wealth and owning things. Real wealth is not the possession of property but the recognition that our deepest need, as human beings, is to keep developing our natural and acquired powers to relate to other human beings.” – Grace Lee Boggs

5/4 "No one should ever be locked away simply because they share the same race, ethnicity, or religion as a spy or terrorist. If that principle was not learned from the internment of Japanese Americans, then these are very dangerous times for our democracy." -- Fred Korematsu

5/5 “It is the fate of modern life that we repeatedly lose touch with nature, the environment, the planet. But we try to regain it again and again. It's like a circle. In children's hearts and souls when they're born into the world, nature already exists deep inside them. So what I want to do in my work is tap into their souls.” – Hayao Miyazaki

5/6 “I've always felt that if I am deserving of the Medal of Honor, there are many, many others who are. I felt a little bad receiving it, so I received it on behalf of the fellows, because there's no such thing as a single-handed war. There's always a support group, and if you didn't have people who supported you, you couldn't fight a war.” – Daniel Inouye

5/7 "Sometimes the future changes quickly and completely, and we’re left with only the choice of what to do next. We can choose to be afraid of it. Just stand there trembling, not moving. Assuming the worst that can happen. Or we step forward into the unknown, and assume it will be brilliant." -- Sandra Oh

5/8 “We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.” – Ang Lee

5/9 “Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up.” – Jackie Chan

5/10 "All these people, all these things came into my life, and they’re all blessings from God. And now that I look back, I realize that these are His fingerprints all over my story." -- Jeremy Lin

5/11 “Anger is a gift, but organized anger is a weapon.” – Tammy Duckworth

5/12 “Nobody else can make the sound you make.” – Yo-Yo Ma

5/13 “Success is a collection of problems solved.” --  By I.M. Pei

5/14 "Injuries teach you how to slow down." -- Yao Ming

5/15 "Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be." -- Michelle Yeoh

5/16 "I don't know secret to success, but I'm pretty sure the closest thing is preparation." -- Michelle Kwan

5/17 “Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.” – Akira Kurosawa

5/18 "Every day, someone realizes a dream. I believe dreams help light our darkness and give us the push we need to move across the rink of life." -- Kristi Yamaguchi

5/19 “Our society would be better if we all were just given the opportunity to dream, to believe, and to pursue the things that make our heart sing.” — Kelly Marie Tran

5/20 “I always think that my way of doing things, I want to make life a bit easier for the people that come behind me.” -- Naomi Osaka

5/21 "Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever." -- Margaret Cho

5/22 “Dream big. The sky has room for all stars.” – Constance Wu

5/23 “To me, beauty is inclusion — every size, every color — that’s the world I live in.” — Prabal Gurung

5/24 “Remember, success is a journey not a destination. Have faith in your ability. You will do just fine.” – Bruce Lee

5/25 "There's really no substitute for working hard. I think that's my biggest talent. There are always people who are funnier and more talented than I am, but I don't take anything for granted and I commit myself 100% to each of my roles." -- Ken Jeong

5/26 “You don't want to continue to do one thing and only one thing. You want to keep challenging yourself and if you do well at it, great, if you fall on your face, you tried. Like, she's really terrible at comedy! Who knew? But if you didn't try and put yourself out there you'd never know.” -- Lucy Liu

5/27 “I never was able to do karate. That's calling me a good actor. I act like I can do anything.” – Pat Morita

5/28 “Human life is difficult. But as this life is coming to an end, I consider myself lucky to have lived it.” – James Hong

5/29 “Everything you make is being made by every single experience you’ve ever had in your whole life, and on top of that, things you were born with.” — Maya Lin

5/30 "Remember that consciousness is power. Tomorrow's world is yours to build." -- Yuri Kochiyama

5/31 “Love isn't about what we did yesterday; it's about what we do today and tomorrow and the day after.” – Grace Lee Boggs