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June 23, 2004
"Even their safe little village was revealing itself to be unpredictable and irrational
and precarious, and while [she] had already begun to understand this with her mind, she had never before felt it with the
whole of herself. Now a cold awareness of the uncertainty of all life, no matter how careful the planning, hollowed
emptily in the pit of her stomach."
~Madeline L'Engle (A Wind in the Door)
June 24, 2004
"Unreason has crept up on us so insidiously that we've hardly been aware of it.
But think of the things going on in our own country which you wouldn't have believed possible only a few years ago...I don't
think I believe all of them now, although I know they're happening...Ten years ago we didn't even have a key to this house.
Now we lock up when we go out. The irrational violence is even worse in the cities...They've never known a time when
people drank rain water because it was pure, or could eat snow, or swim in any river or brook...Here we are, at the height
of civilization in a well-run state in a great democracy."
~Madeline L'Engle (A Wind in the Door)
June 25, 2004
"Be!/Be, butterfly and behemoth,/be galaxy and grasshopper,/star and sparrow,/you matter,/you
are,/be! Be, caterpillar and comet,/be porcupine and planet,/sea sand and solar system,/sing with us,/dance with us,/rejoice
with us,/for the glory of creation,/sea gulls and seraphim,/angel worms and angel host,/chrysanthemum and cherubim/(O cherubim)/Be!/Sing
for the glory/of the living and the loving/the flaming of creation/sing with us/dance with us/be with us/Be!"
~Madeline L'Engle (A Wind in the Door)
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