I've slowly been making my way through The Memory Keeper's Daughter (Kim Edwards). It is one of those sad books that isn't really a fun read but the story is a compelling one and I have to know if it ends how I think it will. With total destruction, that is. Really, it is the only way it can end when it started it out with lies as big as it did. What other outcome is there?
David, (the one who lied) is a bone doctor and an obsessive photographer. He said something that embodies exactly what I've thought a million times.
"...these rare moments where the world seemed unified, coherent, everything contained in a single fleeting image. A spareness that held beauty and hope and motion-- a kind of silvery poetry, just as the body was poetry in blood and flesh and bone."Tiny moments like these where life seems to slow down just enough for me to take inventory of all I've been blessed with are the kind that mean the most to me. If I pay close attention, the feeling is gone too quick to appreciate so I pretend not to notice and soak in it as much as possible before it fades and the colors aren't quite as vivid, the feelings not quite as strong.
...In all our trials born to be our friend, He knows our need, to our weakness is no stranger..."
--Oh Holy Night
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