Sometimes I wish they'd ask for my wisdom more often - there are so many things I could tell them; things I wish they would change. But they don't want change. Life here is so orderly, so predictable - so painless. It's what they've chosen.

The fact that I lost my son permeates my being.

And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our future.

I don't read young adult or children's books, now that my grandchildren are beyond the age of my reading to them. I read reviews, and so I'm aware of what's out there. But I tend not to read the books.

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.