Journal Entry 9.28.23

“I learned that the word ‘clue’ itself comes from an Old English term for a ball of yarn that can be unwound to show the right path.” Victoria Finley, Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World

Finley wrote her book following the death of one parent closely followed by the second. She wrote, “So this is, on occasion, a ghost story. Or a book written while grieving, and emerging from grieving which is also a ghost story in its own way.”