Sunshine is the Currency of Memory

It's here. What really matters. Ten minutes ago, sitting in the dappled shade by the pond, looking at the sunlight, I found it.

Sunshine is the currency of memory. It enables you to trade with the past and put something away for the future. Children's fiction mostly comes from the memory of sunlight and cool earthy places. If the story begins in the dark, it always looks for the light.

For me, it was the heat of today that has brought me to this place. There is something rustling in the hedge on the other side of nettle patch.

I have picked up a stick. I have written my first sentence. The sentence that changes everything.