I’m preparing for my writing class….looking over interviews with writers I’ve saved but not managed to read. Toni Morrison‘s words in a summer O Magazine stop me in my tracks….
I gave a commencement address at Princeton where I told the graduates that I wished them happiness but they shouldn’t settle for that–it wasn’t good enough, it wasn’t important enough.
Her words take the pursuit of happiness and somehow put it in another place, give the headlong rush of all of us toward it another tone.
What do you think?
Karleen Koen — writing life 