She hopes to pursue a career in professional writing, focusing on Native American issues. Laurel spent the summer of 2000 studying in Italy, where she learned about the influence of the Renaissance on English writers and used her Italian speaking skills. My hands have toiled eighty-nine years for a world that both applauded and scorned. David, a cold symbol of my love for Florence, is now an effigy for a lost republic. I live miserable, alone like a wasp caught in a bag of bones.
Silence is a blessing, that comes while the world sleeps.
I lie awake, waiting for the spider who moves in after the glory to chain up the windows and doors of my soul. I have long lived in Hell and painted its pictures.