My Grandpa And The Haint by Ernest J. Gaines
“You've got to bend with the wind or you're broken.”
― Ernest J. Gaines, Conversations with Ernest Gaines |
Now, this short story is really good too. Its sent me back to childhood memories. Sadly, there is always someone in a neighborhood peculiar or eccentric, so different that children choose to laugh at that person. The person becomes entertainment for the lazy days of summer. There is a lady like that in "My Grandpa And The Haint." Her name is Madame Toussaint, an old hoodoo lady."
Now that I am a woman there are feelings for these people. Usually, they are lovable, mind their business and wouldn't hurt a butterfly. I'm sure these women and men had many stories to share if only we, as children, had been taught to appreciate their tales. I wonder how many stories have passed by and through my community that I missed, and a story lost is like spilled milk.You can't recover that nourishment, that refreshment again. It's gone like a lost memory.
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