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Utterly delightful read 🕯️

“…trying to master the thought of time: that there were times before his time, and would be times after.”
—The Hurt Man (1888)

“like everybody else, (he) cannot be conscious of the present while he is thinking of the past. And most of us, most of the time, think mostly of the past. Even when we say, “We are living now,” we can mean only that we were living a moment ago.” —Fly Away, Breath (1907)

Time for a much needed reread through the Port William Membership

“…for she loved the stillness of the ordered house at the day’s end, and she too needed her quiet.”
—The Girl in the Window (1864)

*Reread

“I wish it need not have happened in my time, said Frodo.

So do I, said Gandalf, and so do all who love to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. And already, Frodo, our time is beginning to look black.”

Hunkering down with a cuppa for this timeless reread…<<>>

“…autumn was now crawling towards winter…”

“May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks,” answered Gandalf.

Time for a fall reread of Tolkien…

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit…it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.”

Selected Garnett rather than P&V translation for this reread

Reread…chose Garnett rather than P&V this round

Excited to pass several of these along to our young adults bound for college…tremendously relevant!

Reread🤍💙

“For other men, nights were for sleeping...”

“Midway upon the journey of our life
I found myself in a dark wilderness,
for I had wandered from the straight and true.
How hard a thing it is to tell about,
that wilderness so savage, dense, and harsh, even to think of it renews my fear!
It is so bitter, death is hardly more—
but to reveal the good that came to me,
I shall relate the other things I saw.”

Time for a reread:)

Reread with 100 days of Dante through Baylor University Honors College