“An airplane is just a bunch of sticks and wires and cloth, a tool for learning about the sky and about what kind of person I am, when I fly.  An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding.  Those things aren’t destructible.” Nothing by Chance, Richard Bach   Nanna by Kristin Hill That quote also serves as the first words in Sticks & Wires & Cloth by Anne Hopkins.  Then in the closing chapter  she begins: “Someday I will discover that climbing into Nana’s cockpit takes too great a toll on [...]