Rolling with the tide
This is a non-conventional blog entry, when Nova spirals into a literary piece (though blogging nevertheless because my stories require multiple edits, while blog entries are raw). I try to balance these entires with urban odyssey shots to even things out.
Let’s time travel a bit, to a sunny beach in St. Petersburg, Florida. Nova is about twelve in her urban odyssey. She has parents who feel she must be exiled to a sunny, southern state with immigrant war-scarred grandparents every summer. It’s part of a city kid’s odyssey: everyone tells you how horrible it is that you grew up in one, and your soul gets saved by sending you to foreign states just when finally think you’re free because you’ve just been released from school for the summer.
This entry speaks to rolling with things that sometimes present themselves as obstacles and hardships in our journey back home to Ithaca. Rolling with the tide – continue reading …
