Tag: darkness
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June 1, 2021
“Frank thought how mysterious the world was, how unexplainable and sometimes frightening. But to sit in the kitchen and read to someone he loved and to push back the darkness with a story—that was a wonderful thing.” Chris Van Dusen’s illustration so perfectly captures this moment—two friends pushing back against the darkness. Thank you, Chris,…
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June 30, 2020
I woke up the other morning in need of comfort. I thought about Stella Endicott and Horace Broom and went in search of this illustration by Chris Van Dusen. In Stella Endicott and the Anything-Is-Possible Poem, Stella and Horace are in the dark, alone. Stella and Horace are not friends, but they hold hands; they…
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April 30, 2020
If there was ever a year when we needed to see an impossible blossom . . . If there was ever a time when we needed the riotous promise of spring . . . Into this darkness, there comes a bursting out, a breaking forth, an insistence on light, renewal. What can you do but…
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January 30, 2020
The days here have been gloomy and dark. Recently, I pulled an old book of Peanuts cartoons off the shelf. Every morning now, I read a few poems and follow the poems with Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy. Every morning, I think and feel and marvel. Then l laugh out loud. Poetry and Peanuts and…
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February 21, 2019
One of my favorite Peanuts strips shows Linus carrying a candle and saying, “I have heard that it is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.” To which Charlie Brown responds, “That’s true . . . although there will always be those who will disagree with you . . .” The…
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August 17, 2017
I have felt so very, impossibly small lately. And the world has seemed so dark. How do I combat the darkness? That is the question that I keep asking myself. Yesterday, I thought, “This feeling reminds me of someone, and I can’t think of who it is.” And then I realized that I was feeling…