Status Updates From A Glasshouse of Stars

“But none of your cousins has a freckle under her left eye like this girl does. What Ma Ma and her sisters call a ‘bad luck beauty mark’ because it means the owner will always weep. But you have often wondered in times of quiet reflection if it okay for someone to cry throughout their entire life story if that’s the way they feel and if it gets them through in the end to become a stronger person.”

“You look up at the sky with the sun shining next to the almost invisible moon, and all you know is that humans are so complicated, and this is heartbreaking and heart-mending all at once.”