Mockingbird Summer

by Lynda Rutledge

Although some things never change about growing up, the time in which you grow up isn’t one of them. It’s forever changing, shaping you in ways you can’t control or anticipate. As each year passes, the only wild card is you.

the world you grow up in always feels like the way it has always been and will always be. Until it isn’t.

There is a young moment when the world can suddenly reveal that it doesn’t revolve around you.

Everybody’s got their own story, she realized as she locked eyes with the driver of a passing car . . . and they’re swirling around me every moment of every day. All she had to do was be open to seeing them.

“Since Eden, there’s always been a snake in the garden. That’s the world we must journey through, one full of snakes willing to do wrong.”