Book review.........more or less

Bummer........they do not have the font I want on this here blog thingy........oh well.

So, this is kind of scary putting your thoughts out there for anyone to read. Are you sure I'm not going to be murdered in my sleep Kristen for my views on things???? :o)

There are a few books that are keepers. Meaning some books you read them once and eh........it was a fun read or interesting but you have no desire to read them again as they did not fulfill you in some way or another. They may have been entertaining or you learned what it is you needed from that book and so it just takes up space on the bookshelf collecting dust. Then you or I in this case have books that are timeless and when the mood hits I read them over and over and over again.

"The Education of Little Tree" by Forrest Carter is one such book. A book that will have you laughing one minute and crying the next. The relationships in this book are heartwarming and real and the life's lessons learned are wonderful.

I have been in the mood to read this book again so picked it up a few days ago and have been taking my time enjoying every moment when I can sit and digest its every word. At one point in the story Little Tree's grandmother gives him some words of wisdom.

They are:

Oh hey wait. Am I going to get in trouble for copyrighting stuff? See, this bloggy stuff is tricky! Okay, I'm giving full credit to the author here..........taint my words........tis his..........

"Granma said everybody has two minds. One of the minds has to do with the necessaries for body living. You had to use it to figure how to get shelter and eating and such like for the body. She said you had to use it to mate and have young'uns and such. She said we had to have that mind so as we could carry on. But she said we had another mind that had nothing atall to do with such. She said it was the spirit mind.

Granma said if you used the body living mind to think greedy or mean; if you was always cuttin' at folks with it and figuring how to material profit off'n them....then you would shrink up your spirit mind to a size no bigger'n a hickor'nut.

Granma said that when your body died, the body living mind died with it, and if that's the way you had thought all your life there you was, stuck with a hickor'nut spirit, as the spirit mind was all that lived when everything else died. Then Granma said, when you was born back as you was bound to be then, there you was, born with a hickor'nut spirit mind that had practical no understanding of anything.

Then it might shrink up to the size of a pea and could disappear, if the body living mind took over total. In such case, you lost your spirit complete.

That's how you become dead people. Granma said you could easy spot dead people. She said dead people when they looked at a woman saw nothing but dirty; when they looked at other people they saw nothing but lumber and profit; never beauty. Granma said they was dead people walking around.

Granma said that the spirit mind was like any other muscle. If you used it it got bigger and stronger. She said the only way it could get that way was using it to understand, but you couldn't open the door to it until you quit being greedy and such with your body mind. Then understanding commenced to take up, and the more you tried to understand, the bigger it got.

Natural, she said, understanding and love was the same thing; except folks went at it back'ards too many times, trying to pretend they loved things when they didn't understand them. Which can't be done.

I see right out that I was going to commence trying to understand practical everybody, for I sure didn't want to come up with a hickor'nut spirit."

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