

They walked the streets of the City of Yef and slept in the cool grottoes of the City of Jungil, and walked across the famed bridge connecting the twin Cities of Iyo and Ivo. Then they stayed three nights on the abandoned Island of Tho, where the ruins of a failed City loomed like broken gray teeth against the sun, before skipping along a string of low, sand-scoured islands too small to be named. Everything that is alive requires pruning as well, which is a great metaphor for endings. They docked first at the City of Sissly, where Ade could admire the pink domes of the local chapels and taste the pepper-bite of fresh gwanna fruit. Everything has seasons, and we have to be able to recognize when something's time has passed and be able to move into the next season. It is the grand finale of the fireworks display. Sam Shepard, American playwright, actor, author, screenwriter, and director It’s the big finish. When asked what she wanted to see, Ade replied, " Everything," so Yule obediently charted a course toward everything. Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster. Yule thought about once-upon-a-times and bold beginnings.Īt dawn they departed. Ade nestled into the softness of his arm and thought about happily-ever-afters and sweet-tasting endings. “They spent the night tucked beneath a spare scrap of canvas in the boat bottom, listening to the sluicing of waves against the pine-tarred hull and watching the night wheel over them like a dancer's star-studded skirt.
