Alex

“Time, like masks, could make us reclaim the best of who we were and purge the worst of what we’d become. Ever faced the mask, faced his fears, and I hoped the mask healed him the way it once healed all Cherokees.”
― Oscar Hokeah, Calling for a Blanket Dance

“It’s odd to think that nature requires company, because, of course, it doesn’t.”
― Ben shattuck, Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau

“Is this why a parent’s death is so devastating? That of all the witnesses lined up in your life, losing a parent is losing the biggest one, the one who drummed you up out of nowhere and saw you, and saw you, and saw you?”
― Ben Shattuck, Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau

“Maybe I was trying to create a memory, something I could hold on to after they left, or maybe I was trying to create a memory for them, something they could hold on to after I left.”
― Oscar Hokeah, Calling for a Blanket Dance