The Tell

You have to feel all of it in order to feel any of it.

You remembered the essential truth of it. The part of it that matters. Even if not all the specifics were exactly right. Maybe it doesn't have to be perfect. Maybe it's enough that you remembered it at all.

Women are always doing things so we can be better for other people.

Remembering is so much better than not remembering. Telling is so much better than not telling.

"We gotta get up early for the coyote hunt.”

“Coyote hunt?”

“They keep multiplying. They’re nasty animals. If we don’t kill them, they’ll come after the calves. They only prey on the young. All you have to do is protect the cattle until they’re big enough, and then they’ll be fine—the coyotes won’t come after them once they’re grown. The key is to keep them safe while they’re little.”