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How present can you be with what is?
I read fast. My best friend also reads fast, it is not unusual for us to Buddy Read a book in a day. I am only mentioning this so that when I tell you that we were both unable to zip through Ancestors, it actually means something.
This book is achingly gorgeous. It was a struggle not to highlight the entire godsdamned thing. There was at least one sentence on each page that made me say "whoa damn" while I sat and stared at a wall in contemplation, frequently with tears streaming down my face.
The future I hear has the rhythms of a past I recall in my cells, but I never saw it, never smelled it, and so every day I watch us make a memory that is only right because we all feel the rightness. Let the crowd say axé and woahmeeeen.
It's like going to church, if the church fucks (both literally and metaphorically).