"I know this sky, its shades of overlapping blue. I've memorized its patterns, the wispps of the northern lights. From here, I can't see the colors in the aurora borealis, only the white funnels against the night ( Read more... )

"Dear, honored bookcase, I salute thy existence, which for over one hundred years has served the glorious ideals of goodness and justice; thy silent appeal to fruitful endeavor, unflagging in the course of a hundred years, tearfully sustaining through generations of our family, courage and faith in a better future, annd fostering in us ideals of ( Read more... )

One of the things I love about Madeleine L'Engle's writing is her way of describing classical music, in such a way that you want to go out and listen to what she's writing about. Other subjects have the same sort of treatment, but this is one of the key ones, in my opinion. That woman can tell stories ( Read more... )