Pitseolak Ashoona, Napachie Pootoogook, Annie Pootoogook, ice, implication, and short sentences

"I know it's just a drawing, but, when I put from my heart to my drawing, that makes it so that thing won't come back again, and I won't think about it anymore." —Annie Pootoogook

Last Monday, the morning before my father died, the car wouldn’t start. Within a half hour, a philosopher mechanic arrived in a tow truck. You go out to your car every morning, Eddie said, and you expect it to start.

I was preparing to teach a creative writing class and had just read a definition of story. Storytelling is an act of interrupting the statu…