“Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.”
– Madeleine L’Engle
Registration now open! Walking on Water: The Madeleine L’Engle Conference
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Guest blog post: Sharing Madeleine, sharing cosmos
“This question of the meaning of being, and dying and being, is behind the telling of stories around tribal fires at night; behind the drawing of animals on the walls of caves; the singing of melodies of love in spring, and of the death of green in autumn. It is part of the deepest longing Read more...
Children’s Book Week: Is it Good Enough for Children?
My youngest daughter and I read a picture book by Madeleine L’Engle the other night. We hadn’t shared The Other Dog before, so we sat smooshed in an armchair with it, each of us holding a cover. And we laughed: it’s a good book. The dog, Touché, L’Engle Franklin, is upset over a “new dog” Read more...
TROUBLING A STAR, an ode for Earth Day
Dear Ones, This year for Earth Day, I went to Antarctica from my living room chair. Madeleine L’Engle brought me there, through the novel Troubling a Star. The book, the final in the Austin Family Chronicles, opens with a teenaged, terrified Vicky clinging to an iceberg in the ocean. Before we read about any rescue operation (or Read more...
Black holes, Einstein, and the gift of questions
My mind went to Madeleine L’Engle last week when I saw the first picture of a black hole. Science, astronomy, physics, quantum mechanics --- all those things caught her imagination. In And It Was Good: Reflections on Beginnings, Madeleine writes about how she and her husband (Hugh Franklin) would gaze at the stars, “seeing out Read more...
A WRINKLE IN TIME tessers audiences at local stages
Meg saved the world again last week in East Lansing, Michigan. Michigan State University’s theater department transformed an intimate stage into Camazotz for the occasion, bringing to campus a stage adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time. Photo Courtesy of Michigan State University. This was a book-lover’s show: a tribute to the story and Read more...