James Gullickson
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Remember, when you were little, how you'd take all the videotapes off the shelf in the living room and then set up your own blockbuster on the couch?
Mom, I know you've got a good head on your shoulders.
I know figuring all this life stuff out is hard, but you've always had something in you.
I'm not asking you to be anything in particular.
I just need you to find a way to let it out.
She squeezed his arm and walked back upstairs.
It was the kindest thing anyone had said to him in months, and it made him feel worse than anything his father had said.
When he got himself together, Will made his way to the coffee table.
He looked over the magic kit.
The hat was still upright.
The cape still draped over the box.
The wand still across the instructions.
He picked up the instructions and read through them again.
They made him smile.
The crude illustrations and enthusiastic text.
The explanation of how to pull the rabbit from the hat.
On impulse, he reached for the hat.
He picked it up and turned it over.
The felt rabbit was there, sewn to the interior lining, matted and faded and missing one eye.
A kid's toy.