setting up my space
I have so many books. Linguistics books, Greek lexicons, Hebrew Bibles, feminist scholarship, commentaries, translations, facsimiles, and more. They are windows into my passions, reminders of what excites and motivates me. Even though they’ve been packed away in boxes for years now, they’re there. They’ve been waiting. Virginia Wolff said that all a woman needs to be her full and creative self is a room of her own. I may not have a room, but I have a whole wall of my own in the office shed Nate and I share, and as it has begun to take shape, I feel the significance that Wolff spoke of as well. My life nowadays is full to the brim, mostly with taking care of our children. While I know I could make more time and space for “myself,” I generally just don’t. For the most part, I don’t feel the need; I love our home, I love our children, I love the life we have created. But every once in a while, I’m reminded of just how different my life looks now than it did just a f...
