“Sky Full of Elephants,” simply mesmerizing — and real…Part 1

Deb C.🇵🇸💚
1 min readJan 13, 2025

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“Change is coming — and memory will ALWAYS prevail.” Queen Vivienne

When my Daughter, @Laura M. Quainoo wrote about this book, I KNEW I needed to read this shit (Well, I had to LISTEN to the Mofo, cuz I’m old and my eyesight’s f*ckin’ failin’! — so I DID!!).

Baby, please!!! Young Mr. Campell’s storytelling HUMBLES me — much like that of Mr. James Baldwin. I’m not surprised though, because some of our children GOT what “my friend Jimmy” was trying to say!

At the end, I didn’t quite get Sydney’s journey back to the water at first, particularly given it’d held so many sorrowful memories and had also rejected her. But later, I saw it as she’d learned that she was, in fact, after all, “ALL OF US — and, FREE.

Am I wrong? Lemme know in the comments, PLS…

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Deb C.🇵🇸💚
Deb C.🇵🇸💚

Written by Deb C.🇵🇸💚

Former Navy Russian linguist, Realtor, Claims Adjuster, OpEd columnist/Features writer at a small, S. Florida newspaper. Since 2007, blogged at “Let’s Be Clear”

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