The Road / Cormac McCarthy

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.
You forget some things, don't you?
Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
"To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong." Joseph Chilton Pearce

"If you press me to tell why I loved him, I feel that this cannot be expressed,
except by answering: Because it was he, because it was I."
Michel de Montaigne, "Of Friendship"

Friday, August 12, 2011

Graham Harwood

Among all those initials in his senior shout-out, I see my name, spelt out whole, "Hannah." And then the next four words:

few deserve success more.

Was this for me? If it was, then I cannot close my mouth, for Graham said something so remarkable, so eloquent, in so few words that I don't even deserve to read. It is as if each word accounts for each one of the four years of high school: few (I was one of the few), deserve (I wanted to earn something), success (my lesson in failing successfully), more (I had more than I needed). Ah Graham. I did not know he regarded me so highly. I will remember this. I will remember to thank him for this.
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