She needed storiesas much as the pagesof a book needed her. To escape. In a quiet cornershe read cover to coverloving & hating characters. To connect. Yes, sure she tried different scenarios onwhen storylines lingered. Long after the last page. Kúkwstum̓ckacw / Thank you for reading.
An introspective mindcan and will strategizethe hell out of the directYes or No question. And yet, dive in withan unwavering beliefwhen it comes todeclarations offorever and always. Because it knows. "How long is forever" ?Can be answered with "Sometimes, just one second". Credit to Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland in the last verse.
Somewhere on the shelvesof this dusty ol bookstore. I'll one day, find those words; you read to me. The question therein lies. Am I in fact searching for words in a book ? Or the voice that hauntinglywalks through; my mind. Kúkwstum̓ckacw / Thank you for reading.
This cardboard boxis filled with very important people from our childhood. It houses the voices and magic of make believe worlds found in bedtime stories we heard night after night. From Tom Sawyer the mischievous hooky playing; wanna be pirate. To Huckleberry Finn's vagabond, heroes state of a carefree existence. And Peter Pan's devil-may-care infinite … Continue reading MOVING DAY
Author David Sheff explains (in this radio interview on NPR) why we shouldn’t wait for a person to hit rock bottom before getting them help — “I’ve heard over and over again, we’re told that they had to let their kids, you know, their husbands, their wives, whoever it was, they had to stand back, … Continue reading On the Shelf: “Clean”
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