Book Review: Aroma of Beauty
“Beauty could not rebuild our cities, but it helped to rebuild our humanity and to bring us closer to one another. Beauty could not bring back family and friends, but […]
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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes: The Spirit of Appalachian Music
“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 […]
As Kingfishers Catch Fire: Going Beyond Inscape
As Kingfishers Catch Fire By Gerard Manley Hopkins As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame; As tumbled over rim in roundy wells Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each […]
The Book Thief: Ugly and Beautiful
“The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I have the endless ability to be in the right place at the right time. The consequence […]
Calvino: A Stand Against Inferno
“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by […]