It’s nonfiction, a kind of literary daily devotional. Today I Will: A Year of Quotes, Notes, and Promises to Myself (Knopf, 2009) is the first title co-authored by my wife, Eileen Spinelli, and me.
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And then… and then–ah–we open our eyes and the days is before us, and–we become ourselves.From Random House: “ Jerry Spinelli is the author of more than a dozen books for young readers, including Maniac Magee (Little Brown, 1990), winner of the Newbery Medal Wringer, a Newbery Honor Book and Stargirl (Knopf, 2000) a New York Times bestseller and an ALA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults.”Ĭould you briefly update us on your back list, highlighting as you see fit? We are, for a few brief moments, anything and everything we could be. We are untitled, unnamed, natural, suspended between was and will be, the tadpole before the frog, the worm before the butterfly. We are not the people we know as ourselves, but creatures more in tune with a tree than a keyboard. For those few moments we are unformed, uncivilized. We have just slept the sleep of our most distant ancestors, and something of them and their world still clings to us. For those few seconds we’re something more primitive than what we are about to become. It’s that time, those few seconds when we’re coming out of sleep but we’re not really awake yet. “You know, there’s a place we all inhabit, but we don’t much think about it, we’re scarcely conscious of it, and it lasts for less than a minute a day….She seems to be in touch with something that the rest of us are missing.” Sometimes I thought she should be teaching me. “How did this girl come to be? I used to ask myself.“The trouble with miracles is, they don’t last long.”.“You’ll know her more by your questions than by her answers.“Maybe that’s how names ought to be, heh? Why be stuck with just one your whole life?”.She’s an earthling if there ever was one.” “My school is everywhere and always in session.”.“She was the opposite of cool she held nothing back.”.All of her feelings, all of her attentions flowed outward. Correction: her bad things did not stick to her. Of all the unusual features of Stargirl, this struck me as the most remarkable. “We wagged our head and agreed what a goofy girl this was, maybe even officially crazy, but we walked away smiling and maybe not saying but all thinking the same thing: it felt good to get credit.”.For the dormant mud frogs we had been for so long.” “It was a rebellion she led, a rebellion for rather than against.“We had no one to compare her to, no one to measure her against.I liked the feeling the moonlight gave me, as if it wasn’t the opposite of say, but its underside, its private side, when the fabulous purred on my snow-white sheet like some dark cat come in from the desert.” “In that moonlit hour, I acquired a sense of the otherness of things.
The thing is, there’s no difference between me and the universe. I’m not outside my world anymore, and I’m not really inside it either.
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And then the world is free to flow into me like water into an empty bowl…. Sometimes we need to erase them, erase our senses.
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