Mockingbird Summer

by Lynda Rutledge

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

“Here’s the thing to remember about normal. In big times of change, normal is what is being changed. And I can feel that something big is coming. You and your young girlfriends, sugar, are going to be the ones who benefit from it most, wait and see.”

We forget this world is fallen. We forget that it’s our duty to remember to be better, to stand up to Evil when it shows itself, even if it sometimes shows itself within our own hearts. In fact, that’s the only kind over which we really have total control, the kind within us. It’s also the kind easiest to make right.”

“Feeling bad won’t change things. Life doesn’t always go the way you want it to. And most of the time, it isn’t a bit your own fault.”