From Myth to Radiant Darkness

I've known about the power of myth for a long time. At least since third grade. That's when my father took me to a bookstore for a special outing, and said I could get any book I wanted, and there, on a display table, was the most magnificent big book of Greek myths. Winged horses were soaring off the cover and it looked like they were coming right at me—all that force and power!

But I never even picked that book up.

It was big. Big meant expensive. Expensive meant my father might hesitate or even tell me to choose something else, and that would be terrible. So I got a silly little book that meant nothing to me.

I merely got the wrong book, but in Radiant Darkness, when Persephone avoids saying things that are uncomfortable, she almost ends up destroying the world. Lesson Number One: Speak up for what you truly want and need.

I didn't know then how much we need myths. I do now.