Dear Reader,
I have read Tracey Chevalier's "Girl with a Pearl Earring." And, indeed, there is a bit of magic in it. One walks the streets of 17th century Delph, Holland. Past the canals, the narrow buildings, and the Protest churches with little decoration. There was a particularly moving symbol in the eight-pointed star in the middle of the town square.
The narrator Griet, a young woman forced to take a job as a maid after her father is seriously injured, often visits the square. She walks around the outline of the eight-pointed square when pondering serious decisions. Griet realizes an individual does not generally chose between two things but many things, even as many as eight. In reviewing my own life, I recognize I am deciding between eight, as well.
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