Little Black Book
Little Black Book
The Daily Missal
1921 words
As I have grown older, the wish to live small has become the focus of my imagination, and some time ago I began the process of sorting through the seemingly overwhelming collection of stuff I have accumulated over the years. One pile for gifting, one pile for donating and one pile for keeps. Starting with the bookshelf, which housed all manner of trinkets alone with an array of books I hadn’t looked at in years, I came across a small, well-worn, black leather-bound book with faded gold letters on the cover: Daily Missal. Opening it, I saw it had been inscribed by my mother with the year of my birth: 1952.
