Dear Stop Sign, I need to tell you a story. For some time now I have been chasing a shadow. I once knew this girl who was fearless, healthy, and strong. I have been convinced for quite awhile that she might never be found, but today I thought I might have seen her. She was the very definition of fierce independence. She believed what she did not know could be learned. She was never afraid to try. She truly did not know that there was anything she could not do if she set her mind to it. Her mother instilled in her the mantra: " Figure it out. " If she wanted to see something, she went and saw it. If she wanted to do something, she went and did it. She was in the prime of her life. She rock climbed in the dark. She rappelled with abandon. She rafted rivers at their peak. She loped around center field, leaping and climbing the fence and snatching home runs away from big men with bats....
The always random, occasionally complex, often confounded commentary and narrative of one West Texas woman's life.