Like A Mermaid Rising From An Ocean

I Hope The Snow Covers Everything So All The Footsteps Are Silenced, And The Whole City Can Be At Peace.

In That Moment, The Machinery Of The World Lined Up. Somewhere A Clock Struck Midnight, And Hugo's Future Seemed To Fall Perfectly Into Place.

Maybe We're All Cabinets Of Wonders.

Ben Remembered Reading About Curators In "wonderstruck", And Thought About What Id Meant To Curate Your Own Life, As His Dad Had Done Here. What Would It Be Like To Pick And Choose The Objects And Stories That Would Go In Your Own Cabinet? How Would Ben Curate His Own Life? And Then, Thinking About His Museum Box, And His House, And His Books, And The Secret Room, He Realized He'd Already Begun Doing It. Maybe, Thought Ben, We Are All Cabinets Of Wonders.

A Friend Suggested That I Get A Job At A Children's Book Store So I Could Meet Kids And Read Books, And That Turned Out To Be The Single Best Bit Of Advice I've Ever Gotten.