Instructions

A storm came through my hometown just yesterday. I was at work, but I could see the wind picking up and the clouds darkening. As I stared off into it all, the thing that kept coming to mind was this, "What slumbering, ancient, beast was awakened to bring such a storm, and why is it coming here?" I wondered if someone had uncovered an item of great importance and there was another force on the rise to try and stop it. Or maybe that was the good guy coming on the clouds? Either way, I also thought of stories like Neil Gaiman's "Instructions."  If you have not read this book, then you won't know which way to winter's realm! So you must. Charles Vess does an amazing job of helping you take the journey.

     I have been reading it to my son, Tristan, some nights as he goes to bed. He loves these stories, "BlueBerry Girl" "Where the Wild Things Are". He will ask for them by name. It makes me glad that he is exposed to such wonders early in life. There is no better time to learn than when you're young. It's time to open your mind to some of the way things really are. If you don't know what I mean by that statement then you are welcome to read my last blog and get a better picture, perhaps. Stories like these really do give us, "Everything you'll need to know on your journey."