She's Already Gone

Madeleine L'Engle has died. I only just now found out. In fact, I read it on someone else's blog. I wish I could've had the chance to tell her just how much her writing meant to me nearly 40 years ago when I "discovered" her through her well-known A Wrinkle In Time; and how much more she meant to me during this last decade as I read more of her works and rediscovered the Wrinkle series. Now, *she* is the kind of Christian that I want to be. On the cutting edge in the arts, fully engaged in culture, but not a slave to it. Unique, courageous, creative, generous, kind. I can't wait to meet her.

Here's her official web site: http://www.madeleinelengle.com

The New York Times reported:

“Why does anybody tell a story?” Ms. L’Engle once asked, even though she knew the answer.

“It does indeed have something to do with faith,” she said, “faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically.”