“Anyway, I think about the lilac swing a lot, especially now that I’m older and most of us have families and jobs of our own and our hopes and disappointments have just become features of our lives we can tour like those bodies at Pompei.” JobsHopeLivingAgingDisappointmentGetting OlderLivesFamilies Book:Idle Grounds Source: Idle Grounds
“When was Beezy’s birthday?” we’d asked the grown-ups a while ago and been told that Beezy hadn’t celebrated her birthday, not since she could help it. It was a foreign concept to us, not celebrating your birthday, though I suppose when someone dies they become all their ages at once so it doesn’t really matter.” DeathAgingBirthdaysCelebrations Book:Idle Grounds Source: Idle Grounds