Am half way through. I don't know what i expected, but i did not expect this.
i quit reading fiction long ago. The last was Louise Erdrich, who i love beyond love. I don't read it because i have no life then. My life is in the pages, the words, I hurry through necessity so i can return to my life, which is happening in the pages of the book. I don't know what i thought i might find in this book but i have found
what i needed to find.
half way. I don't know where it's going at this point. I am uneasy but totally compelled. There is more truth here than anyWhere i've been for so long. Is it True?, this is Fiction. But is it True? I went to pick up the dear Honda Car from the Emissions mechanic today. It's been a week again. This time they replaced leaking hoses . 3. Alyssia and Emrie gave me a ride there. It's better, but the consensus is that i need a whole new carburetor. OK, but they don't do that. Don't now anyone in Oroville that does. Maybe Chico. I leave and head for the grocery store and at a corner see a
TREE
i am startled by it.
There are trees Everywhere in Oroville. Zillions of trees and at the corner of Robinson and Lincoln, there was a single most magnificant tree. Why didn't i take a pic of it? I don't know, but i was filled to the brim with the Sense that so many trees in this small town/city were touching roots...touching
and that the power people PGandE were going to shut down the electricity at 4pm AGAIN because of high Fire threat....and the book so far says nothing about Fire and Trees and might not, but here, it's Fire and Trees and i want to get back home so i can get back into my real life inside the pages of the book so i hurry.
and i understood. Finally, today, something about this Cloth that has been on the Wall Curtain for i guess months now. I can go forward with it. I finally understood its language.
