Or, maybe what really mattered was that game of Crazy 8s.
Gina Marinello-Sweeney, I Thirst.
“The last time I checked, I wasnt the one who tripped over a glass container of sugar that I had myself dropped... after, of course, having received several bruises from an attempt to retrieve a fli...”
“No magnetic wombats, no flying hyenas, no catfish masquerading as samurai, and, MOST CERTAINLY, no Duku jam!”
“You were...are...what I heard. Every note.”
“I would travel far and wide...seeing, listening, creating. I would weave tales for an enthralled audience. A song would be heard throughout the kingdom, and I would be a part of that. You would nor...”
“Many a year I told her tales. And then the time came for me to watch. And watch I have.”
“Maturity is so often considered to be synonymous with adult. But I truly feel that maturity may be defined by the ability to be both an adult and a child.”
“Work should be personal. For all of us. Not just for the artist and entrepreneur. Work should have meaning for the accountant, the construction worker, the technologist, the manager and the clerk.”
“I used to think of work as a bad word. Back in the corporate world, work was something that prevented me from living, something that kept me from feeling satisfied or fulfilled or passionate. Even ...”
“It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embr...”