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Reading this while I am finding my way back home, I have so many thoughts and feelings about this weekend at #ALAAAC19. These were days of many emotions for me, but mostly it was just a few days of a journey that started a while ago and continues crazyquiltedi.blog/2019/06/26/how…
I realize how I too don’t know how to respond to people thanking me for my work; do they know how much I love to do what I do? When I make my books I am safe and warm at my studio. I am fed, I am healthy, I am loved and my life is not in danger.
I am breathing and my heart beats, and then I come to places and people thank me, there is love for my work. I receive an award, people buy my book, and in the middle of all these I realize of a certain fallacy that plays in my life. In many author’s lives.
