Podunk

 

 Eatin' strawberry pie in a mid-town diner 

Next thing you know you're back in South Carolina 

Stuffin' your mouth at Grandma's house 

Then a lady in a booth gets onto her kids 

Lays down the law like your mama did 

And it makes you smile 'cause every once in a while 

We all go home to a place and a time 

In our hearts and our minds 

That we just can't outgrow 

There's a tie that'll bind you 

And love that'll find you 

No matter where you go 

Someday, someway we all go home

{Lyrics borrowed from Joe Nichols' We All Go Home}

What we do now...

“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.” 

“What we need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed up against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face. Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, criscrossed with tiny roads that lead nowhere. Otherwise you live in the moment. Which is not where I want to be.” 

“If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending... But if it's a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone. You don't tell a story only to yourself. There's always someone else. Even when there is no one.” 


Quotes taken from The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Wishing some reflection and perspective into our future.