My Father's List by Laura Carney
Author:Laura Carney [Carney, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781637586396
Publisher: Post Hill Press
Published: 2023-03-23T08:58:34+00:00
I was beginning to enjoy my quieter life. Every day, when I wasnât working in the city or headed to jury duty, I had the same routine. Iâd wake up at 2:00 p.m., take a shower, make the bed, do the dishes, drink coffee, smudge my crystals, and write. Iâd started a collection after the rose quartz I found on Mount Atalaya. As I smudged them with smoking sweetgrass, Iâd say: âI love the truthâ (for the rose quartz), âI see the truthâ (for the clear quartz), âI speak the truthâ (for the lapis lazuli), and âI know the truthâ (for the amethyst). My green aventurine was the biggest, in the shape of a heart, so I smudged this one last, saying, âI feel it all with my whole heart.â I held the stone up to my chest when I was afraid.
On our honeymoon, in Sedona, during the part when our family was still there, Jaime and I were perusing a crystal shop when Steven and Dave left to get the car. I explored the computer in the back that photographed auras. I was too skeptical to pay for a photo but too curious not to look. As I played around with the mouse, a woman with long, dark, wavy hair emerged through a beaded curtain. I apologized for fooling around where I shouldnât. âThatâs OK, youâve almost got it,â she said. When she clicked the mouse, my portrait showed up on the computer screen, engulfed in yellow. âThis is the aura of a writer,â she said. âYouâre trying to write a book, but youâre afraid it wonât be good. Your solar plexus chakra is blocked. Do it anyway, because what youâre writing is the truth.â
âI think you are a real writer now,â Heather said at jury duty, after my weekly watermelon update.
âWhy do you say that!?â I laughed.
âBecause you used to talk about Good Housekeeping all the time,â she said. âBut you havenât said one thing about being a copy editor in two months.â
On our last night in Beach Haven, High Noon had been on TV. Gary Cooper says to someone after being stripped of being sheriff, âIâm the same man without the badge.â
Maybe I was, too.
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