Tricia Lightweis, owner of The BookSmith in Seneca, South Carolina dropped me a note to say that she has restocked SUGAR!
So if you live in or around Seneca, stop by and purchase a copy or two and become part of the movement to make Sugar's 10th Anniversary Historical.
I am an old soul. Always have been and by all accounts - always will.
I love old houses, old songs and old books. I like the feeling that comes over me when I look at, touch and hear these things.
Sometimes these old things conjure up memories that I'd forgotten I had.
Yesterday, I was a watching a movie that had the song, Let's Do It Again - playing in the background. What immediately came to mind were summers at my grandparents home. My grandfather standing at the grill flipping burgers, us kids jumping rope and playing red-light, green-light in the driveway. Uncles and Aunts relaxing in lawn chairs reminiscing about their own good ole days.
The memory struck me deep in my heart and I began to smile. "Easy times," I mumbled as I started rifling through my collection of CD's in search of the song.
Days earlier, while visiting with a friend in Rockaway Beach, I was going through her mounds of books when I stumbled upon a copy of MIDNIGHT BIRDS - Mary Helen Washington's ground-breaking collection of stories by and about Black women. I opened the book and started reading Paulette Childress-Whites' short story, Alice."Alice. Drunk Alice. Alice of the streets. Of the party. Of the house of dark places."
Do you feel the rhythm of those words? Lovely, isn't it. This is the type of writing that has always had a profound and indelible effect on me.
Back home I found that I had the revised edition: Black-Eyed Susans and Midnight Birds - and settled myself into bed and read deep into the night.
Revisiting those stories reminded me once again of easy times - those long, gone days when I all I could do was dream of being as good a writer as anyone of those women in that book.
I wanna go back to that time...even if just for today.
Come with me - dig out that favorite, old book and put on Mavis. Don't have the original cut? -- --That's okay Leela James does a pretty bang-up job on the remake.
*snapping fingers-swaying away*
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