The Last Bookstore and the Edge of the Map
It’s not a tomb in a solid or permanent way, not a grave. This is the gilded foyer to another world.
It’s not a tomb in a solid or permanent way, not a grave. This is the gilded foyer to another world.
Yet, I remembered over coffee, a broad view of justice may sometimes include simply “giving people a fish.”
I stood in the middle of the stream, my line whizzing back and forth, back and forth as I tried to remind my arm how to lay the line down gently.
Kimmerer’s book is—I should stop myself. It’s one of those books that’s easy to lapse into cliché when describing.
We could’ve seen the excessive nail-marks in the wall as holes, but we chose to see them as opportunities—convenient holders for tiki umbrellas during our tropical-themed party.
I didn’t question if they still loved me; I questioned whether they thought I belonged in the house of God and if I would stay.
Instead of caring about Oberon, Titania, Puck, and their compatriots, I spent my time wondering what chaos backstage had created the confusion onstage.
But grown women usually don’t wail on an eight-hour flight over the Atlantic.
I’ve dubbed this summer as “healing girl summer” (instead of the trendy and probably more fun, TikTok-approved hot girl summer).
Despite our best efforts, however, okra gets overly large and woody, tomatoes drop to the ground and burst, lettuce bolts, and basil goes to seed.