Mockingbird Summer

by Lynda Rutledge

“A book, like music, is very personal. You bring yourself, your own story, to everything you read. It’s a book’s boon and bane. But it’s also its raison d’être—its reason for being—to meet you where you are. Exactly like a great piece of music.”

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.

I had the same thought on the light rail once!

“Here’s the thing to remember about normal. In big times of change, normal is what is being changed.