emily’s Reviews > Greenwood > Status Update

‘(He) hired men to cut—paid them like rats to do it. The old saying goes that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. But—the opposite is more likely true. An apple is nothing but a seed’s escape vehicle, just one of the ingenious ways they hitch rides—in the bellies of animals, or—the wind—far away—She’s always believed that most people’s lives are lived as one great refutation of the ones that came before them.’

‘It’s—Nakashima,—successive slabs—from the same log—nearly identical pieces side by side—mirror image—honey-tinged grain pulse with life—He remodels restaurants—café's employees—look as though they’ve stepped from the pages of a Steinbeck novel—Times are hard. Not hard like—1930s—but hard differently—& during hard times, people crave—consolations of other hard times—rage is perhaps the most productive fuel there is.’