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Perspectives

April 25, 2008 — by Lindsey Charlton

First, go visit your Great Grandmother, or someone else who will tell you fascinating stories about your family history, or life as it was eighty or one hundred years ago.

Then, go home and watch Everything is Illuminated.

And realize that the world as you know it right now is nothing like the world that others know.

And journal about it. If you’re anything like me, you’ll get a couple thousand words out of it.

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Sometimes the truth is
Not what you want it to be.
Is it ever what you expected?
No, probably not.
Are you okay with that?
Are we meant to create truth or
Are we meant to find it?

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