July 2011
When my child turns 11 I am going to write them a letter to Hogwarts. Once they open the letter we will take a trip to Wizarding World and buy them all of the supplies they need to go to Hogwarts. After our trip I will tell them “Of course it is happening inside your head, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
“Why did I allow myself to be bored ever in the past and to compensate for it got high or drunk or rages or all the tricks people have because they want anything but serene understanding of just what there is, which is after all so much.”
—Jack Kerouac
“She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.”
—Jeanette Winterson
