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Day fullblown and splendid . . . day of the immense sun, and action and ambition and laughter, The night follows close, with millions of suns, and sleep and restoring darkness.
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman, American Renaissance Books
IN ALL THE BOOKS that resulted from Byron’s challenge—Frankenstein, The Vampyre, and Ernestus Berchtold, the first victims are the innocents, those most loved by the protagonists. So it was in the lives of those who had received his challenge, as well as those around them.
The Monsters
Dorothy Hoobler, Thomas Hoobler
How does it save the world to reject unabashed joy when it is joy that saves us? Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn’t rescue the suffering. The converse does. The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest Light to all the world. When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? For us? The clouds open when we mouth thanks.
One Thousand Gifts
Ann Voskamp
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