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“Filled with that… that feeling you have as a kid in the summertime. Unfettered freedom,”
My grandfather stared down life’s challenges head on with a twinkle in his eye and a glass of whiskey in his hand.
My grandfather believed in spontaneous socializing, building community instantly with just about anyone he made eye contact with.
although I do not believe in love at first sight, I do believe something inside of me recognized her… I don’t know, her soul.
My world was the size of Lucia and Lucia only.
My heart squeezed painfully, a feeling I didn’t recognize. But I’d read about it.
“Women are constantly engaged in a battle with time. The oldest war there is.”
Isn’t this what we’re alive for? Why else were we put on Earth if not to enjoy the written word?
I just loved the idea of being a little kid and spending your day between bookshelves, falling asleep on stacks of paperbacks.”
In large white letters was a quote from Mary Oliver, a quote both of us knew, a famous quote, urging us to consider the preciousness of our own lives.
You’re reading the words a writer has chosen out of every word in the universe.
