On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Lesson Plan

Discuss the scene with the customer who has a prosthetic leg. How does this passage speak to the power of memory?

Little Dog relays a scene of a Sunday morning with his mother at the salon. They have just opened when an elderly woman comes in for a pedicure. When Rose instructs her customer to lower her feet into the water basin, the woman reveals that her right leg is a prosthesis. Without missing a beat, Rose begins to work on the woman's left leg. When she finishes, the lady requests that Rose massage her missing limb. There is only a slight pause before Rose gets back to work. This passage doubles down on the power of memory. The first example is Rose's muscle...