I just read that Margaret Mahy has passed away ( Read more... )

Nobody told me Brian Jacques was gone.

It must have been one of the library trips I missed, working. And I was kind of waiting for news on Diana Wynne Jones, but I didn't know anything of him, to keep an ear to the ground. The NYTimes on it...

So this is all old-news, and maybe it will seem like not-very-big news, but we're dealing with my scale of ( Read more... )

Remembering Diana Wynne Jones, by Emma Bull.

I wanted to have something to say when I posted this...but I still don't.

Bye! We'll miss you and your stories.

Day 29

It is time to write a love-letter to an author. If you write to more than one, keep it to 3 or so, and make your words count-mini-essay time!

Dear Diana Wynne Jones,

Thank you for writing what seems like whatever you feel like. I'm sure this isn't true--I'm a writer, I know a bit about how it goes.
But I love the way you've taken huge weird ( Read more... )

I'm sad about a few things right now...
genuinely sad in little ways, not depressed.
It's odd to be used to mild depression and have to think, to recognize sadness. We don't respect sadness as a culture. That's twisted.

I am sad.
A professor with a huge influence over me, and my best friends, and my mother and people who never heard his name died the ( Read more... )

From Walking on Water:
"If we begin with certainties, we will end in doubt. But if we begin with doubts and bear them patiently, we may end in certainty." Francis Bacon, De Augmentis

[on higher mathmatics sparking encounters with God and inspiring faith]
"I asked questions, cosmic questions, and the German theologians answered them all--and they were ( Read more... )