When I Reached The Bottom, I Finally

My Granny Torrelli Says When You Are Angry With Someone, So Angry You Are Thinking Hateful Things, So Angry Maybe You Want To Punch Them, Then You Should Think Of The Good Things About Them, And The Nice Things They've Said, And Why You Liked Them In The First Place.

It Seems To Me That We Can’t Explain All The Truly Awful Things In The World Like War And Murder And Brain Tumors, And We Can’t Fix These Things, So We Look At The Frightening Things That Are Closer To Us And We Magnify Them Until They Burst Open. Inside Is Something That We Can Manage, Something That Isn’t As Awful As It Had A First Seemed. It Is A Relief To Discover That Although There Might Be Axe Murderers And Kidnappers In The World, Most People Seem A Lot Like Us: Sometimes Afraid And Sometimes Brave, Sometimes Cruel And Sometimes Kind.

Once 'walk Two Moons' Received The Newbery Medal, I Decided To Write Full-time. Partly Because There Seemed To Be An Audience Out There Who Wanted To Read What I Wanted To Write, And Partly Because I Could Now Support Myself Financially Through Writing.

Maybe It Was The Same With People: If You Studied Them,you'd See New And Different Things. But Would You Like What You Saw? Did It Depend On Who Was Doing The Looking?

Sometimes When You Are Trying Not To Think About Something It Keeps Popping Back In Your Head You Can't Help It You Think About It And Think About It And Think About It Until Your Brain Feels Like A Squashed Pea.