Minikin Escapades

“...I have lived my entire life equidistant from the bay and the ocean. My moods depend on the tides. The ocean is my loud, my crazy, my scary, my thrill, sometimes all at once. But the bay? The bay is my calm, my quiet, my steady...
It's the place where I go to hear my own thoughts" -Lucy”
― Jennifer Salvato Doktorski, The Summer After You and Me

“With my arms wrapped around Rosebud, I dreamed of heather-topped hills and sleepy valleys and a pretty woodland stream where dragonflies danced across the water as I sat down among the ferns and the meadowsweet, waiting for the summer to find me.”
― Hazel Gaynor, The Cottingley Secret

“I know that the best time to see them is in that perfect hour before sunset when the sun sinks low on the horizon like a ripe peach and sends shafts of gold bursting through the trees. The "in between," I call it. No longer day, not yet night; some other place and time when magic hangs in the air and the light plays tricks on the eye. You might easily miss the flash of violet and emerald, but I- according to my teacher, Mrs. Hogan- am "a curiously observant child." I see their misty forms among the flowers and leaves. I know my patience will be rewarded if I watch and listen, if I believe.”
― Hazel Gaynor, The Cottingley Secret

“He kisses my tears, and I laugh. This is a moment. I want to remember this moment. Every detail, every sense. It's one of those moments in life that makes everything else worth it. One of those moments that feels like an eternity of bliss in one tiny bite of time. It's one of those moments that falls from some heavenly plane to remind you that life can be wonderful.”
― Kara Lee Corthron, The Truth of Right Now