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First try at a manuscript-style miniature. Annunciation.
Watercolour and gold leaf on paper.
“Let’s be clear: without due process rights, anybody — yes, that means you — could be swept up in a raid and dumped in some hellhole and then the government could say, “Well, too late.” Citizenship is no protection if there’s not even a process in place to determine one’s legal status. One need not have any sentimental feelings about the…
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“Don’t use fancy words when you pray, because it’s often the simple and plain murmuring of children that delights our heavenly Father.”
+ St. John Climacus
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The new Times expose on Ukraine is shocking, horrifying, enraging. Everyone involved with this caper needs to be sent up the river
Book 6: All the Water in the World, by Eiren Caffall
“What alters wanting is what’s behind it. Greed and hope aren’t opposites. Greed and hope are twins grabbing for the same thing, one in fear and one in faith.”
I am putting that quote at the top, just because I loved it so much. It stopped me cold. Read and reread. Caffall's writing is so profound throughout this adventure story. Another example: Instead of telling us a character is tired, she says the character "barely felt her sleep." Just little moments like that are so engaging.
Also making it engaging: It's an extremely fast-paced adventure story!
There are lots of comparisons to Station Eleven with this novel, and they're apt. Whereas Station Eleven though was about art making us human, this is about preserving the science that can remind us what the World As It Was was like, and could be again. Either way, preserving what made us human is what gives us hope. And the main similarity is that a small but determined band of humans endeavor to keep that hope alive.
