People in A Story: How Book Characters Teach Us to Love Well
“I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more […]
A Treasury of Literary Discussion
“I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more […]
[little tree] BY E. E. CUMMINGS little tree little silent Christmas tree you are so little you are more like a flower who found you in the green forest and were […]
“Sometimes I wish they’d ask for my wisdom more often–there are so many things I could tell them; things I wish they would change. But they don’t want change. Life […]
Local Legends: Mothman Last week, my brother and I went to visit Point Pleasant, WV with a few friends. Our goal was to visit the home of Mothman, one of […]
“The only effect I ardently long to produce by my writings, is that those who read them should be better able to imagine and to feel the pains and joys […]
“It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.”― Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler Reading a play […]
“We don’t charge for tickets, because sometimes hungry people need music the most.” (The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, pp. 365) One of my favorite aspects of Suzanne Collins new […]
“I think there’s a natural goodness built into human beings. You know when you’ve stepped across the line into evil, and it’s your life’s challenge to try and stay on […]