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Two Old Women: Book Review

One day, I was browsing the bookshelves of my local library looking for something interesting to read. There’s one particular shelf in an adult section of the library that I like to browse all the time, and it’s one that has books of myth, folklore, and fairytales . I eventually found a book that I had never heard of or read before; Two Old Women . Two Old Women is a book written by Velma Wallis . It is an Alaskan legend of the Gwich’in people that Wallis’s mother told her after they had finished collecting firewood (p. xi). According to Wallis, her mother had told her this story because of an earlier conversation they had while collecting firewood (p. X.) Wallis was amazed by the fact that her mother still collected her own firewood despite being in her early fifties, and despite the work being physically difficult for her (p. xii) According to Wallis, the elders amongst her people would work until they couldn’t move or until they died (p. xii). After talking about these things, her ...

My Journal's Gilded Pages


My writing journal’s pages

Are gilded and bright.

Its pages glitter and shine

In the warm sunlight.


These gilded pages

Are filled with different things

Like poems and stories

Of dragons and kings.


I use my feather pen

To write riveting tales

Of boats that soar in starry skies

Beside large flying whales.


I use my feather pen

To write poems about birds

Who sing of faraway lands

And use strange, amazing words.


I write stories of the past

I write stories of the present

I write stories of the future

Which I find very pleasant.


My writing journal’s pages

Are gilded and bright

Not because of the gold leaf

But because of the words inside, right?

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