Sometimes when you are trying not to think about something it keeps popping back in your head you can't help it you think about it and think about it and think about it until your brain feels like a squashed pea.

Something I am wondering: if you cannot hear do you have no sounds in your head? Do you see a silent movie

Being a mother is like trying to hold a wolf by the ears,” Gram said. “If you have three or four –or more – chickabiddies, you’re dancing on a hot griddle all the time. You don’t have time to think about anything else. And if you’ve only got one or two, it’s almost harder. You have room left over – empty spaces that you think you’ve got to fill up.

...but it doesn't feel crazy to us. It feels like what we do.

You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.

Every character is asking: Whats my place? Why am I here? I dont want the answer to be Just because. You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

I am drawn to the ways in which we are shaped by people and by place.