Defining Moments And Natalie Collins

Starbucks has taken to putting the quotes of various prominent people on their cups. The quote currently gracing my Soy Green Tea Latte (I’m on a health kick) is by Brian Scudamore, the CEO and founder of 1-800-GOT-JUNK? and it reads as follows: “…you are what you can’t let go of.”

I must admit, that’s pretty profound and incredibly accurate. It’s basically the theme of Alina’s last blog. Of course letting go isn’t always the right thing to do, particularly if we’re talking about a defining emotional experience. Letting go of something like that would be the equivalent of letting go of who you are and that’s never a good idea. Sometimes the best we can do, the best we should do, is deal with these experiences. Even if they’re negative we can learn from them and allow them to make us stronger rather than allowing them to destroy us or make us callous.


I suppose it’s because of this philosophy that I’m so anxious to read Natalie Collins book, Wives And Sisters. All the reviews have been fabulous. Even Kirkus loved it and when it comes to book reviews no one is harder to please than Kirkus. It’s a psychological thriller about a woman who has to take on the Mormon Church (within which she was raised) in order to find and expose a sexual predator. Natalie was actually born and raised a Mormon and one need only read her blog to see that she has very strong feelings about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and you don’t have to be Freud to figure out that her experiences with that institution were not positive. But it’s also clear that those were defining experiences. She’s used them to feed her artistic career. They have been the motivation for many of her journalistic pieces. Those experiences are the reason she has become an advocate for millions of women who have been, and continue to be, oppressed by religious fundamentalism.

So while I don’t know Natalie personally I do have an enormous amount of respect for her. She was given some bad "junk" and she’s smart enough to know that she’ll never be able to let it go. Instead she’s used it to make lemonade and if the Washington Times, Midwest Book Review and About.com are right, this beverage has bite.



Kyra Davis
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