Natalie Race is Editor of The Curator and is on staff with New City Arts Initiative, an affiliate of International Arts Movement in Charlottesville, Virginia. An alumna of the University of Virginia, she appreciates Truth, Goodness, Beauty, and artisanal bacon.
Throw in the missing daughter of a famous evangelist, a handful of corrupt police officers, a marriage saddled with its own emotional baggage, a couple of attempts on our hero’s life, and a violent hurricane, and you can’t possibly avoid producing a page-turner.
“n. the lucky fascination felt when a typo immeasurably improves a sentence you wrote, singed by the underlying recognition that the book of your life is credited to you but is not in your handwriting, which nevertheless appears in trace passages of many other lives.” Emphasis added. From the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.
Confession: I’ve recently found myself to be a knitter.
I am reminded that my actions do have consequences, that I can tangibly affect my world – even if, for today, that is only in the orientation of a Bryant Park chair.