July 16, 2007

  • Short Story:

    Confirmation

    "They took all the trees,
    put 'em in a tree museum
    and they charged the people
    a dollar and a half just to see 'em"

    -- Joni Mitchell

    From an article (full version contains spoiler) on Bridge to Terabithia:

    "In the book, a girl named Leslie Burke moves in next door to a
    chore-ridden farm boy, Jess Aarons, and imagines for him a kingdom she
    names Terabithia. Over a fall and winter, they ride the bus home from
    school together (sharing a seat in spite of catcalls from schoolmates),
    dump their backpacks at the edge of the road, and run across an empty
    field to the edge of a creek bed, where 'someone long forgotten had
    hung a rope.' They use the rope to swing across the gully into
    Terabithia, a wooded glade that Leslie makes magic...."

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    Art by Wendell Minor from the cover
    of Magic Time, by Doug Marlette

    From Bridge to Terabithia:

    "I know"-- she was getting excited-- "it could be a magic
    country like Narnia, and the only way you can get in is by swinging
    across on this enchanted rope." Her eyes were bright. She
    grabbed the rope. "Come on," she said.

    LOS ANGELES - Roger Cardinal Mahony, leader of the Los Angeles Catholic
    Archdiocese, the nation's largest, apologized yesterday for what he
    called a "terrible sin and crime" as the church confirmed it would pay
    a record $660 million to people sexually abused by priests.

    Log24 7/11,
    "Magic Time"    --

    Mary Karr,
    "Facing Altars:
      Poetry and Prayer"--

    "There is a body
    on the cross  
     in my church."

    "Don't it always seem to go
    that you don't know
    what you've got
    till it's gone"

    -- Joni Mitchell