5 November 2008
Rent from DeepDyve- 5 November 2008
Remember when we were little how we would lie up there on that ridge and watch the clouds? We had been raised to feel guilty about everything. Had been brought up to fear the Rapture. We worried all the time about the possibility of blasphemy, or that we would be possessed by the devil.
They did not tell us that we didn’t know anyone who wasn’t just like us. They did not tell us that there was a whole other world out there, and other kinds of gods and fears and joys and songs to sing. We knew not what we did. We could have never imagined a day like this, a day
a giant awakes from an eight year slumber, fists unclenched. Bones popping as legs stretch. The giant says aloud, to no one, to everyone: “Alright, it’s time to get out of this bed. It’s time to get up and get started.” We could not have ever thought the thrill of hope such an attainable thing, right
at our fingertips, a little bird that has lighted on our knee, waiting and ready to be cupped up by our scarred hands. [End Page 100]
Silas House will have two new books out this coming year, a young- adult novel entitled Eli the Good and Something’s Rising, coedited by Jason Howard, a collection of vignettes of people adversely affected by mountaintop removal. A life-long resident of Lily, Kentucky, he is the author of three successful novels and serves as writer-in-residence at Lincoln Memorial University in Cumberland Gap.
