Hôtel Groslot, Orléans
“Si je n’y suis [en la grâce de Dieu], Dieu m’y mette; et, si j’y suis, Dieu m’y tienne! Je serais le plus dolente de monde si je savais ne pas être en la grâce de Dieu”
— Jeanne d’Arc
Today’s Feast Days
9 November
In those lonely years of wrongheaded crushes, I used to ache for someone to know me all the way through, till the terrified boy in the closet was finally laid to rest. I realize now that I can’t entirely shake him. His sorrows and his wasted time still ambush me, the old scars bleeding again, sometimes even when I’m laughing in my lover’s arms.
Paul Monette (1945–1995)
American author, poet, and gay activist
Becoming a Man (1992)


