You don’t believe me? In twenty years when you’re exhausted and you’re worried about your job or your kids or politics or your spouse, and you feel like you’ve got the weight of the world on your shoulders, you will hear a song, and BOOM! There you’ll be.

“Okay-you guys, don’t listen to what grown-ups say about your music, because the fact is, that music will help you time travel. This is for men like my husband and father who believe parenthood is a sacrament and good works bring us closer to the good in the universe, for whom gentleness is not weakness and flaws are forgivable, who struggle daily between what is good and what is easy and very nearly land on the right side of that every single time.īACK when I used to teach high school, my students would come up to me and try to get me not just to listen to their music, but to love their music.īesides the fact that I was a die-hard Springsteen fan (which just sort of takes you out of all other music categories, favorite-wise!), my tastes ran completely counter to the popular music in the area in which I was teaching-but I told my kids that it didn’t matter. To request permission and all other inquiries, contact Dreamspinner Press, 382 NE 191st Street #88329, Miami, FL 33179-3899, USA No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system without the written permission of the Publisher, except where permitted by law. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.Ĭover Art by Shobana Appavu rights reserved. The Winter Courtship Rituals of Fur-Bearing Critters

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