Smart Templates provide essential toolsets for the tasks at hand from basic recording to mixing stems, mastering an album to setting up a live show. It’ll break your back.”īubi overcomes Mommy’s objections, and she helps him swing the loaded pack onto his back. But my prematurely tall, seventeen-year-old brother walks with feigned ease under the prohibitive weight. Then he helps me put the straps of my pack on my shoulders. We’ll take a few things out of the pack.” But as soon as he heaves the pack on my back, I stagger and fall. I so wished to carry as much as my brother. Every article of clothing, every item of food may be essential. Perhaps, precisely the thing we take out of my pack will be the thing needed most. Why don’t I have the courage to face carrying the burden? I hate my weakness.Īunt Serena volunteers, “Why don’t you add those things to my pack? My pack is too light anyway. You know I can carry much more.”īut we know she can’t. My favorite aunt is a gentle, frail widow in her late fifties. She has suffered from poor health most of her life. We have learned not to play rough games or make loud noises in her proximity. My kindly, soft-spoken, delicate Aunt Serena, Mommy’s elder sister, has always been my special friend.
