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A review by pjgal22
Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life by Darcey Steinke
4.0
No great revelations here, although I did find the sections about the whales fascinating, but how wonderful to find someone out there that’s feeling a lot like me. This passage, in particular, blew me away:
“As I moved through menopause I often felt death stalking me, just behind my shoulder like a particularly belligerent ghost. Rather than push death away, as I had for years, I was forced to learn to live with her, to accept my body’s limitations, accept that the earth’s cycle played out not only in the outer world but also inside me. Call it decay or change, I am, like everything else in nature, recyclable.”
Recommended reading for any woman making this passage.
“As I moved through menopause I often felt death stalking me, just behind my shoulder like a particularly belligerent ghost. Rather than push death away, as I had for years, I was forced to learn to live with her, to accept my body’s limitations, accept that the earth’s cycle played out not only in the outer world but also inside me. Call it decay or change, I am, like everything else in nature, recyclable.”
Recommended reading for any woman making this passage.