Saturday Morning

~ Live & Learn

At night, crickets sawed outside the windows of my childhood bedroom, and I read sixteen years of old journals, turning their pages into the early morning hours, as if I did not know what would happen next. There I was, same as ever, a linked paper chain of self-replication, continuously through time, the very same shorthand for a simple, happy life: muffin tins, cross-country skis, a desk by an open window. When had I made everything so complicated?

~ Sarah McColl, “Joy Enough: A Memoir.” (January, 2019)

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    2. I remembered the fearless, confident boy I used to be back then…I didn’t miss him. I only, sometimes, missed the high spirits that often used to seize me when I was ten. Would there ever be an event in my life that would catapult me back into that ecstatic, silly lightheartedness, even if only for a moment?

      ~ Benedict Wells, The End of Loneliness: A Novel (Charlotte Collins, Translator) (Penguin Books, January 29, 2019)

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  8. Sarah McColl has recognized…yesteryear’s, yesterday, today, tomorrow and further the future.. value in the everyday,,…the primary development of self, birthed in the beginning, nurtured and formed the essence of Soul, continually expanding, effervescing – shinning forth..and she shines brilliantly.

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