Address Unknown

by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

Readers have a sense of eavesdropping; they don’t expect to understand everything, or to learn every detail. Their assumption is that the letter writer has something important to communicate, and too much explaining can make a letter seem contrived.

A leader is found! Yet cautiously to myself I ask, a leader to where? Despair overthrown often turns us in mad directions.

‘Dying,’ she said in her last week, ‘is normal. It’s as normal as being born.’