José Campion McCarthy

Happenstance and Choices José Campion McCarthy

This work is based on my belief that it is useful, if not necessary, to know under what influences we grew up. I cannot imagine my life without the troubles and the tragedies. Not to say that I would not wish to have been spared some of the lessons life taught me, but these made me who I am now, and being alive has, altogether, been the most exciting thing yet. I often feel that I am lucky: J'ai de la chance. I have taken chances as well, wandering so far that I now live almost on the other side of the world from the village of my birth. Yet I don't feel a stranger in a strange land--just richer, filled to the brim, and still true to the girl child I was.