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Rosemary Rawson
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February 2013
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Dark Bread & Dancing lives!
Dark Bread and Dancing is the first book I’ve written. That is to say, the first book I’ve finished. It doesn’t count the three first chapters of others that are languishing somewhere in the same closet that held my mother’s journals for five years. Never mind. The thing is, I’m now experiencing the wonderful afterglow of having written it through the eyes of those who read it.
It was very personal
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“am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other. Then someone at my side says: “There, she is gone.” “Gone where?”
― Dark Bread and Dancing: The Diaries of Sue Rawson
― Dark Bread and Dancing: The Diaries of Sue Rawson
“Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side, and she is just as able to bear the load of living freight to her destined port. Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at the moment when someone at my side says: “There, she is gone!” There are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout: “Here she comes!” And that is dying.”
― Dark Bread and Dancing: The Diaries of Sue Rawson
― Dark Bread and Dancing: The Diaries of Sue Rawson
