The Little Birds Are Urging Me

Friday, July 8, 2011

Empty Chairs at Empty Tables

"Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us."

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

(Photo taken in Alexandria, VA)

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

My Victoria

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Like a Long Leaving ....

"She plays the notes like a winging, like a long leaving, like standing at the edge of what once was and witnessing the losing of something pure and prayed for. It is like Asia weeping, like a sky crying. 'This one,' I turn to her at the piano, 'it always makes me hurt just a bit, Hope.' Is it the beauty of the song?' "

(Ann Voskamp ... "Holy Experience")

(Photo taken in my sister Bonnie's yard)