Comment je perçois la vie, Grand-Mère

« Rita's poetry speaks to us all, wherever we live in the world and whatever our origins and our history. Rita's voice touches our hearts because it is natural and accessible and there is nothing affected about it. She speaks for the creatures which live alongside us in the world and which we must respect, the salmon in the river, the bear in the forest, and the smooth pebbles in the streams. There is muted pain, like the low sound of the wind, the murmur of trickling water. The call of the horizon, the recollection of wide-open spaces once crossed by the nomads as they hunted and gathered wild plants. And the fleeting brilliance of life, peace and hope, the memory of the child she was, the child she still is, laughing alone in a snowfield, as if she could govern time itself. Thank you, Rita, for giving us an insight into your life. »