Address for mail:
Barbara Pappas
P O Box 543
Sonoma, CA 95476
I welcome your feedback and suggestions.
Hours
by appointment
I suppose it’s harmless enough for a yearning to be so strong that what you need becomes very real in some corner of your heart. Picasso said: “Everything you can imagine is real.”
And I understand that.
In a sense we make up all our relatives, though. Fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, and the rest. Especially if they are dead or distant. We take what we know, which isn’t ever the whole story, and we add it to what we wish and need, and stitch it together into some kind of family quilt to wrap up in on our mental couch.
We even make ourselves up, fusing what we are with what we wish into what we must become. I’m not sure why it must be so, but it is.
It helps to know this.
Robert Fulghum, 1988
