Status Updates From Running Barefoot

“When you realize there’s so much you can’t control, you get pretty stingy with what you can.”

A word!

Alright now, Dorothy

I’m so sorry, Josie

Nclecta 😭😭😭

Ch. 19
To AZ. Reservation to Granny.

Ch. 11
2.5 years later

Ch. 10
Marine Boot Camp Letters

Sampson’s hair and power.

Ch. 8
Being Navajo.

Ch. 8
“It was too good to be true. … It made more sense to doubt her than to believe she had truly loved him in the first place.”

“But she did.”

Ch. 8
Discussing Othello.

Ch. 7
Facial bruise, and back to graduate.
Read Othello.
Then San Diego Marine Boot Camp.

Ch. 7
Where is Samuel?
Reservation. Why?
Herd sheep, 18 now.

Ch. 6
Samuel’s Song

Reading Pride and Prejudice on bus. Samuel gets Wuthering Heights. She never finished it, and it on her list to read!

Samuel is failing English. If he reads WH and writes a report, teacher will pass him. Two weeks. Why this book? She doesn’t usually give extra credit. I told her I’d do anything.

“If you can get through this one, I’ll know how bad you want it.”

Promised Granny graduate. Marines in May.

“It’s like a different language”
“That’s why I read with a dictionary.”
“…my teacher says, our language is disintegrating.”

Navajo to English = Brontë to English

Ch. 3
Persuasion - Anne’s long suffering.

Samuel and reading. 📖

Ch. 1
Jane Eyre was nothing like Catherine Earnshaw.

I adored Jane Eyre.

Promised to use a dictionary and look up words I didn’t know.

Pencil words on my wall of words.

Dad upset when he saw the words.
She explained.
He smiled.

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