THE INTERVIEW Sarah Kroger Kathleen Basi
Janèt Sullivan Whitaker
Berta Sabrio
JKB: Te multitasking isn’t at all instinctive for me, but I’ve learned how to do it. Sort of.
Janèt: Multitasking is overrated.
Kate: I constantly have to tell myself all the time “Finish one thing! Finish one thing!”
JKB: Here’s another question: We had women at the retreat from many different backgrounds and ways of life and experiences of Church; what is it about women gathering together that feels so important and crucial and life-giving? Why do we gather as women? What is it that has us gather as women simply because we are women?
Janèt: I think it’s partly the understanding of all we don’t need to say. Tere are a lot of feelings we don’t need to explain, a lot of injustices we don’t need to process—we don’t have to describe it to each other. We can go right to the important stuff, and leave that common base of knowledge understood and blessed and ennobled.
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Sarah: I think any opportunity to come together as people—in general, but especially as women—in a place that celebrates what unites us, what brings us together, is really important. Our country is incredibly divided, our church is incredibly divided, there’s so much division in our world. But we can come together with our perspective on the world, to celebrate and uphold the things that unite us; we can recognize that no matter what, there are things that join us just because we are women, and because we relate to the world as women.
Kate: I think that women in general—not everyone, obviously, but many—are wired to network and connect. Sometimes we scold ourselves for not trusting our own voices enough, but I think there’s strength in seeking consensus. When you recognize a problem is too big for you, you go to the wisdom of other people. It’s important to have that mirror, where somebody is reflecting you back and you recognize yourself . . . sometimes maybe you don’t like what you see, and other times you come out of the experience seeing yourself in a new way.
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