Status Updates From Tell Me Again

"Though every day is a challenge for Cinderella, this love, and the rescue that accompanies it, comes with ease. She is passive as the fairy godmother transforms her exterior, and again when she is being chosen by the prince who lifts her out of a life of poverty and servitude. All she had to do was work hard and be kind."

As a grown woman, when I walk up the green metal stairs to my grandfather’s back door, I feel the presence of my child-self playing there; I am also laying out on the soft grass under the clothesline where the magpies have for generations sat and sung.