Sunday, March 7, 2010
In Which Miss Jill Realizes That Sometimes The Thing That You Are Looking For is Right There in Front of You
This morning I was reading one of my favorite books, The House of the Spirits and it describes an eccentric bachelor uncle. Said uncle travels around the world and has a monkey and an organ grinder. It seems like the kooky relative is a stock character that reappears from time to time. While I was walking to church, I started wishing that my family had a consummate single, oddball person who traveled around and told weird stories. It seemed so cool. And then I realized that someone in my family already fit that description:
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its true that we always take people for granted and think grass is greener on the other side. :-(
ReplyDeleteThe book holds up to your acclaim, even though at various moments in the book I wanted to hurl it across the room. And on top of that, I love reading your globe-trotting observations, not many people have the storytelling gift.
ReplyDeletetotally! btw, the house of the spirits is one of my favorite books too!
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