My Father's List by Laura Carney

Author:Laura Carney [Carney, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781637586396
Publisher: Post Hill Press
Published: 2023-03-23T08:58:34+00:00

I was beginning to enjoy my quieter life. Every day, when I wasn’t working in the city or headed to jury duty, I had the same routine. I’d wake up at 2:00 p.m., take a shower, make the bed, do the dishes, drink coffee, smudge my crystals, and write. I’d started a collection after the rose quartz I found on Mount Atalaya. As I smudged them with smoking sweetgrass, I’d say: “I love the truth” (for the rose quartz), “I see the truth” (for the clear quartz), “I speak the truth” (for the lapis lazuli), and “I know the truth” (for the amethyst). My green aventurine was the biggest, in the shape of a heart, so I smudged this one last, saying, “I feel it all with my whole heart.” I held the stone up to my chest when I was afraid.

On our honeymoon, in Sedona, during the part when our family was still there, Jaime and I were perusing a crystal shop when Steven and Dave left to get the car. I explored the computer in the back that photographed auras. I was too skeptical to pay for a photo but too curious not to look. As I played around with the mouse, a woman with long, dark, wavy hair emerged through a beaded curtain. I apologized for fooling around where I shouldn’t. “That’s OK, you’ve almost got it,” she said. When she clicked the mouse, my portrait showed up on the computer screen, engulfed in yellow. “This is the aura of a writer,” she said. “You’re trying to write a book, but you’re afraid it won’t be good. Your solar plexus chakra is blocked. Do it anyway, because what you’re writing is the truth.”

“I think you are a real writer now,” Heather said at jury duty, after my weekly watermelon update.

“Why do you say that!?” I laughed.

“Because you used to talk about Good Housekeeping all the time,” she said. “But you haven’t said one thing about being a copy editor in two months.”

On our last night in Beach Haven, High Noon had been on TV. Gary Cooper says to someone after being stripped of being sheriff, “I’m the same man without the badge.”

Maybe I was, too.

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