YOUR SCENERY IS WELL PAINTED WITH FINE BRUSH STROKES of a minute detail that touches the senses without over laboring it.  I enjoyed the scenes of Celeste’s innocent joy in response to the Vogen Village where she awoke in the land of Gamma’s tales.  Her adjustment to the purity of the farm embracing a new world of change was told simply through the taste of goat’s milk.  The paragraph of Celeste putting on her ball gown is light, sensual, with just the right amount of color, periwinkle no less!  I still want to know how Laura got into the men’s room at Radio City Music Hall.  The details were photographically accurate it seems.  It worked for me even though I haven’t been inside the men’s room either!  In the same vein her description of James’ apartment in NY with the terrace scene with his Father, or Celeste’s arrival for her visit, told the story of James’ passion and love affair for the arts and the City.  One of my favorite scenes is when Celeste is in her bedroom wanting to speak with Gamma to get advice, to help iron out the wrinkles of confusion in her heart.  She looks down the hallway to see the light coming from Gamma’s room as the door is slightly ajar. Gamma is seated in her chair, music softly playing, her foot lightly tapping.  To me that was an invitation so authentically painted in artistic simplicity.

Developing her characters, Laura was a spider to a web of intertwined stories, relationships and good old human nature with old souls and young ones.  Her story grew up in an era of back screen doors gleefully slamming, summer ice tea, aprons, swings, and only nice four letter words.  It is refreshing to give life again of another era that should not be forgotten.  A time of sweet innocence, the scent of home, family, forever friends and elders’ wisdom being shared; those are the gifts and reminders of The Heart Code.

LAURA PEARSON WOOD. Sarasota FL, 01-01-2015