Snapshot

She was rolling down a hill, and then she stopped. I was walking with my camera, and I stopped.

"Christina's World," I thought. The Wyeth painting. The essential transcendent pause.

I am thinking about the "So You Think You Can Dance" dancers today. Those finale four—Joshua, Twitch, Katee, Courtney. I am thinking about something Mandy Moore, the guest judge, said last night—that they danced the Mia Michaels choreography not with their physical selves, but with their souls.

We need to write our books that way.

We need to live inside out, authentic and forgiving.