Here we come across another story by Grace Paley. My first encounter with her can be found here.
This was a difficult story for me to get through. Not for the general story itself… but more for the style of writing.
The story forced me to slow down and read the dialogue…and honestly, it’s been difficult for me to read slowly these days.
Life has me catching up with these stories on a very infrequent schedule and…that sucks.
I miss the reading I was able to do.
And the next question from you should be…
“was…?” “well now Nokaj, that implies that there has been some sort of disruption that is preventing you from doing the reading you were doing.”
Yes, the birth of the boy really has thrown our lives into reconstruction.
We/I are discovering what is important in the world now and I just need to realign my priorities and blocks of time.
I was able to get running back into my schedule…now I just need to do the right thing and get this reading and writing there too.
“Problem…well, I’m pretty wiped out by the end of the day.”
Bullshit…reading one of these stories should take at the most 25 minutes.
Paley in her story gave me the speed bump that I needed to determine that I need a new pace, to slow down and focus on what is important.
I’ve got a shitload of books in this series to get through and at the rate I’m going, I’ll never catch up.
It doesn’t help that I’ve added volumes to my collection on the back end of the series and that if I ever make it to the present year, I hope to include stories from those volumes.
Ahhh…Nokaj…dreaming again.
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