Nature and Black Femininity TEWWG by Mary Gretchen Segars https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp Made with ♥ en-us 2021-04-14 11:36:20 UTC 2021-05-11 02:13:58 UTC hello@padlet.com “Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.” https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416137248 2021-04-14 12:48:17 UTC https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416137248 “Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!” https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416141471 2021-04-14 12:49:21 UTC https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416141471 "She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom." https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416144097 2021-04-14 12:49:58 UTC https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416144097 "Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches." https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416145473 2021-04-14 12:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416145473 "Before she slept that night she burnt up every one of her head rags and went about the house next morning with her hair in one thick braid swinging well below her waist. That was the only change people saw in her." https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416146945 2021-04-14 12:50:38 UTC https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416146945 "Nanny had taken the biggest thing God ever made, the horizon ... and pinched it in to such a little bit of a thing that she could tie it about her granddaughter's neck tight enough to choke her. " https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416151442 2021-04-14 12:51:43 UTC https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416151442 https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416151977 "But the stillness was the sleep of swords. "]]> 2021-04-14 12:51:48 UTC https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416151977 "The men noticed her firm buttocks like she had grape fruits in her hip pockets; the great rope of black hair swinging to her waist and unraveling in the wind like a plume; then her pugnacious breasts trying to bore holes in her shirt" (2). https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416152958 2021-04-14 12:52:01 UTC https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416152958 "Mrs. Turner, like all other believers had built an altar to the unattainable -- Caucasian characteristics for all." https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416155037 2021-04-14 12:52:29 UTC https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416155037 "Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net." https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416157101 2021-04-14 12:52:58 UTC https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416157101 https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416158194 "To Janie's strange eyes, everything in the Everglades was big and new. Big Lake Okechobee, big beans, big cane, big weeds, big everything. Weeds that did well to grow waist high up the state were eight and often ten feet tall down there. Ground so rich that everything went wild." 129]]> 2021-04-14 12:53:14 UTC https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416158194 "She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from the root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight." https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416161202 2021-04-14 12:53:59 UTC https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416161202 "She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman." https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416163257 2021-04-14 12:54:27 UTC https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416163257 "So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time. But when the pollen again gilded the sun and shifted down on the world she began to stand around the gate and expect things" (25). https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416172542 2021-04-14 12:56:35 UTC https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416172542 "She often spoke to falling seeds and said "Ah hope you fall on soft ground," because she had heard seeds saying that to each other as they passed. She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pasture of ether" (25). https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416179578 2021-04-14 12:58:10 UTC https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416179578 "In the few days to live before she went to Logan Killicks and his often-mentioned sixty acres, Janie asked inside of herself and out. She was back and forth to the pear tree continuously wondering and thinking." https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416181866 2021-04-14 12:58:40 UTC https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416181866 "She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman" (25). https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416185227 2021-04-14 12:59:30 UTC https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416185227 "Guess you tired uh waitin on me and doing fuh me" https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416186317 2021-04-14 12:59:45 UTC https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416186317 "Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches." https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416195894 2021-04-14 13:01:55 UTC https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416195894 "The lake was coming on. Slower and wider, but coming. It had trampled on most of its supporting wall and lowered its front by spreading. But it came muttering and grumbling onward like a tired mammoth just the same." 163 https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416199498 2021-04-14 13:02:45 UTC https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416199498 "'De lake is comin'!'" (163). https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416207047 2021-04-14 13:04:27 UTC https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416207047 "Janie made her face laugh after a short pause, but it wasn’t too easy. She had never thought of making a speech, and didn’t know if she cared to make one at all. It must have been the way Joe spoke out without giving her a chance to say anything one way or another that took the bloom off of things. But anyway, she went down the road behind him that night feeling cold." https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416214741 2021-04-14 13:06:07 UTC https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416214741 "'De snake won't bite ya,' Tea Cake yelled to him. 'He skeered tuh go intuh uh coil. Skeered he'll be blowed away. Step round dat side and swim off!'" (165). https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416215273 2021-04-14 13:06:14 UTC https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416215273 "The men noticed her firm buttocks like she had grape fruits in her him pockets; the great rope of black hair swinging to her waist and unraveling in the wind like a plume; then her pugnacious breasts trying to bore holes in her shirt." 2 https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416220999 2021-04-14 13:07:30 UTC https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416220999 https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416228100  “Speakin’ of winds, he’s de wind and we’se de grass. We bend which ever way he blows,” Sam Watson agreed, “but at dat us needs him. De town wouldn’t be nothin’ if it wasn’t for him. He can’t help bein’ sorta bossy. Some folks needs thrones, and ruling-chairs and crowns tuh make they influence felt. He don’t. He’s got uh throne in de seat of his pants ]]> 2021-04-14 13:09:03 UTC https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416228100 "It was a weapon against her strength and if it turned out of no significance, still it was a hope that she might fall to their level some day" 2 https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416237096 2021-04-14 13:10:56 UTC https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416237096 https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416258296  “Naw it ain’t, it’s nature, cause nature makes caution. It’s de strongest thing dat God ever made, now. Fact is it’s de onliest thing God ever made. He made nature and nature made everything else.” ]]> 2021-04-14 13:13:56 UTC https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416258296 "[Janie] was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight. So this was a marriage! She had been summoned to behold a revelation. Then Janie felt a pain remorseless sweet that left her limp and languid." https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416259310 2021-04-14 13:14:09 UTC https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416259310 "Tea cake, with sun for a shawl."pg193 https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416267061 2021-04-14 13:15:45 UTC https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416267061 "He could never be dead until she herself had finished feeling and thinking." pg193 https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416271974 2021-04-14 13:16:25 UTC https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416271974 “So de white man throw down de load and tell the ni**** man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have to, but he don’t tote it. He hand it to his womenfolks." https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416276289 2021-04-14 13:17:19 UTC https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416276289 21franklin2 https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416277797 big lake okechobee, big beans, big cane, big weeds, big everything. weeds that did well to grow waist high up the state were eight and often ten feet tall down there

]]> 2021-04-14 13:17:36 UTC https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416277797 "she pulled in her horizon like a great fish net. pg193 https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416283452 2021-04-14 13:18:39 UTC https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416283452 "Dat water is somethin’ wrong wid it. It nelly choke me tuh death." https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416284388 2021-04-14 13:18:49 UTC https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416284388 ¨So de white man throw down de load and tell the n***** ma tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have to, but he don't tote it. He hand it to his womenfolks." https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416287499 2021-04-14 13:19:25 UTC https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416287499 "Back in the Everglades the wind had romped among lakes and trees. In the city it had raged among houses and men." https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416289514 2021-04-14 13:19:50 UTC https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416289514 "Well then, Janie, you meant whut you didn’t say, ’cause Ah never knowed you wuz so satisfied wid me lak dat." https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416298115 2021-04-14 13:21:33 UTC https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416298115 "Somebody got to think for women and chillum and chickens and cows. I god, they sho don't think none theirselves" https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416299547 2021-04-14 13:21:50 UTC https://padlet.com/msegars/1qi0dp7xk4y2oevp/wish/1416299547