Your words were received at the perfect moment for me and they appear so uncanny and serendipitous.
Your piece - peace - is comforting and consoling and hopeful. We, who can do so, who have breath, must act with hope.
You suggest we read A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. I had just taken A Christmas Carol out of Tūranga our beautiful library in Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand. This edition illustrated by Quentin Blake. The writing leaps off the page, the meaning is as profound now as it was then.
A clever tale, a delight, a cautionary tale.
A story which stirs the winds of conscience.
Thank you for your insight and outsight and for the reminder that we can write and write we must.
"The writing leaps off the page"... I don't know the edition Saige but you write it exactly as it impacts on its readers, of all ages. Quentin Blake has been, and thankfully (having just checked) still is a most salient illustrator in the pantheon of salient illustrators.
Having said which I'm off to see if I can locate and acquire a copy of the edition you've been able to access through your, beautiful, local library. Aren't they just, local libraries, beautiful places and liberating spaces?
Dear George.
Your words were received at the perfect moment for me and they appear so uncanny and serendipitous.
Your piece - peace - is comforting and consoling and hopeful. We, who can do so, who have breath, must act with hope.
You suggest we read A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. I had just taken A Christmas Carol out of Tūranga our beautiful library in Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand. This edition illustrated by Quentin Blake. The writing leaps off the page, the meaning is as profound now as it was then.
A clever tale, a delight, a cautionary tale.
A story which stirs the winds of conscience.
Thank you for your insight and outsight and for the reminder that we can write and write we must.
"The writing leaps off the page"... I don't know the edition Saige but you write it exactly as it impacts on its readers, of all ages. Quentin Blake has been, and thankfully (having just checked) still is a most salient illustrator in the pantheon of salient illustrators.
Having said which I'm off to see if I can locate and acquire a copy of the edition you've been able to access through your, beautiful, local library. Aren't they just, local libraries, beautiful places and liberating spaces?
Ah yes! Libraries - liberating spaces, yes!