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Such a pity she's not in the world any more. Her books meant so much to me when I was a kid. She transcended genres. She had a real gift for weaving her faith into her work in a way that felt integral to the story she was telling, but never preachy. She wrote the kind of books that change you.

One of

cleolinda's readers,

faeriemaiden, wrote a lovely and thoughtful tribute to her. I don't know her, but I wanted to share it anyway.

Of all her books, I think A Ring of Endless Light is my favorite. According to her website, new editions of the whole Time Quintet were just released this past May.

I think it's time to re-read.

Current Mood: pensive

There's this really interesting article here about a world-class concert violinist who did an experiment with the Washington Post: If he played his violin in a Washington, DC Metro station, would people stop to listen?

Sadly, the results don't surprise me.

People don't stop to notice beauty enough. They don't look at the flowers, the birds, the clouds, the other people. They're too busy doing whatever. Sometimes I'm in that much of a hurry, too, but I try. I do. I look, or at least I do my best. Sometimes there's an element of "ooh, shinything!" in there, too.

Maybe the first step toward healing the world is to be in the world. We forget that. We get too much inside our own heads and we stop living in our bodies.

I know I do.