Tammy Lash’s Reviews > Letters from the Dragon's Son > Status Update

"Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention..."
~Keanu Reeves

Letters are powerful things. Jonathan wrote letters thinking his time was short. He wrote them to say goodbye--but as sojourners, aren't we all just passing through? Our conversations, texts, messages, and phone calls--letters--should all be built around this thought.

"...the fathers of this Earth will fail generation after generation. The one of heaven never will."

~Avery

So thankful for who He is!

"Grow in beauty and wisdom, knowing all good things come from Him. He allows the bad just as well, but please know these are obstacles used to slow us down- to guide us into knowledge when we look to Him for our way forward. Always work forward. Repeatedly going back to where you have already been will only hinder what He has waiting for you."

Letter to William and Tick-Tock
Jonathan Gudwyne

A large lake trout floats beneath our boat with the silent grace of a coasting bird. I pull William back from his scamper to the other side. Our tilting to and fro just about had us swimming with the fish in its chilly world of liquid green. ~Jonathan

Kitch-iti-kipi is beautiful in the summer but spectacular in the winter. We're about due for a trip.

"Leave the earth uncovered, White Wolf. I want you to see your heart must be treated the same. How can new growth press through the dirt if it is smothered by the dark? Share your weaknesses as well as your strengths with your family, and I promise you will never be alone again."

~Gimii

"You don't get it; not even a little." She shrinks deeper into herself like that distrustful stray in the barn back home. The cat with the mangled fur who'd rather howl over how tight his knots were against his skin than have a human catch him and brush him smooth.


Every story needs a quarrel scene.😆

Izzy still has my face and she's looking at me. Her smile is growing and my discomfort is swelling with it. I didn't notice our eyes were locked. What did she see? What did I reveal to her?

~Jonathan Gudwyne

❤ I love Jonathan and Izzy scenes. ❤

Kshiwe' whoops, and it jolts the mites body and startles her eyes wide. It's an alarm that straightens the bent backs of women scrappin' fat from stretched hides and halts the knuckles of those kneedin' inside wide-mouthed bowls.
~Avery

Oh, to be able to go back into time to see Native American culture in action.

"I'm here but I'm not.
I'm livin' but withered dead.
Breathin' but done doing it.
Feelin' nothin' matters, but hearin' a whisper deep within somethin' does."
~Avery Gudwyne

Depression is real, but so is the Cure. ❤

"He works through the foolish and the wicked same as He works through the wise and the just." ~Avery Gudwyne

God uses all circumstances for His good. He's that big.

2020 isn't a surprise to Him. He isn't wringing His hand in worry. He has a plan. Trust in Him.