Day 222: The Card Trick

I can't, or rather won't, share full pages or chapters or even themes from Gerhardt's creation. . . but I will tickle you with three delightful phrases.


1. " ...in a strange scene, and with an odd gathering of people."


2.  "...and it was a bad house.....a house which condemned them to a miserable, unwanted existence."


3. " ...he was already old when the oldest of us were but young."

Before I left for Sweden, we took a family road trip with my grandmother (Gerhardt's wife) to Belle Fourche, South Dakota, where Grandma & Grandpa once lived--both storytellers. . . .