She sits down and puts
her hand to her chest and rocks. Thinks of all she has lost and will lose. All
she has had and will have. It seems to her that life is like gathering berries
into an apron with a hole. Why do we keep on? Because the berries are beautiful,
and we must eat to survive. We catch what we can. We walk past what we lose for
the promise of more, just ahead. [Elizabeth
Berg, Home Safe]
Less is NOT always Loss. Sometimes Less is the point. How
little understanding I have of this. And yet I know it as surely as I know my
own name.
…one of the best things about
books is that they are an interactive art form: that while the author may
describe in some detail how a character looks, it is the reader's imagination
that completes the image, making it his or her own. [Elizabeth
Berg, Home Safe]
It’s remarkable to me how books [and especially reading them]
have been like a safe treehouse for me for as long as I can remember. I suppose
it’s stories that hold me captive. I’m learning other ways to “read” with my
whack-a-doodle eyesight. And I love walking BEside a good storyteller.
I am glad I am remembering this Now.
I love you, Currie
2 comments:
Bravo Currie! Great post for the beginning month of a year:) Have a blessed and happy one!
Books have always been a way to travel anywhere to any time and experience other lives or learn or laugh...
Don't forget audio books if you want to rest your eyes. ;)
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