Elisabeth Sharp McKetta

“Look only at me. Your eyes on my eyes. Here is what I need you to remember. You never know how long or how short a person is meant to belong to you. All you have is today. You have the water and the trees and the fruit and your body, your husband, your living older son. You have a mind that works and a healthy body that can grow another baby. Tomorrow the trees, the fruit, even the ocean might go away.”
― Elisabeth Sharp McKetta, She Never Told Me About the Ocean

“the caul is born in her or his own water. Babies born in the caul are said to have special powers—to find underground water sources, know how weather will change, when fish will become plentiful. They are said to see spirits because they are of two worlds: the living and the dead, the born and the unborn, the ocean and the earth. They know things.”
― Elisabeth Sharp McKetta, She Never Told Me About the Ocean