Monday, April 25, 2011

The Gift of Story by Clarissa Pinkola Estes (1993)

Subtitle: A wise tale about what is enough.
Just a slip of a book that has been in my office for a while and needs to be returned. This is just one tale within a tale within a tale, but always uplifting. The innermost tale is one I have heard before where two young impoverished people want to gift each other, so she cuts her hair to buy a chain for his watch and he sells his watch to buy her a comb for her hair. They laugh at their foolishness, but realize that they have given each other love and trust. And that is enough.

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