Dolly Parton RIP

SHE GAVE IMAGINATION AWAY

Some women leave diamonds,

some leave their names in stone.

She left books, and rhinestones..

Small hands held stories

that opened doors

to worlds beyond their own.

She knew that imagination

wasn’t a luxury.

It was a seed.

Give a child a story

and you give them somewhere to go.

Somewhere to dream.

Somewhere to become.

She came from little

but dreamed enormously.

And then she gave

that dreaming away.

Millions of books.

Millions of little doors.

Millions of possibilities.

Across the world,

her Imagination Libraries

keep opening little doors

for millions of children.

Perhaps that is the finest legacy

a writer can leave….

not a monument,

but a story

growing in someone else’s heart.

Sleep softly, Dolly.

The songs will carry on.

And somewhere tonight,

a child will open a book

and discover

the world is bigger

than they thought.

RIP Dolly Parton

Sally Somerton - Island Writer

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