When the World Tips Over

by Jandy Nelson

If people bear the trauma of their ancestors, doesn’t it follow they also bear their rhapsodies? If there is generational pain passed down, mustn’t there also be generational joy? If there are family curses that drop through time, mustn’t there also be family blessings that do the same?

How you stop hating someone by trying to understand them.

Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer.