{"id":115,"date":"2007-10-03T19:06:03","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T23:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blogx\/2007\/10\/03\/wild-nights-are-my-glory\/"},"modified":"2009-09-06T16:13:12","modified_gmt":"2009-09-06T20:13:12","slug":"wild-nights-are-my-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=115","title":{"rendered":"Wild Nights Are My Glory"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know you should be in the middle of celebrating “Banned Books Week” but I felt the need to interrupt. <\/span>Last month the world became a little less warm when author Madeleine L’Engle passed away<\/a>. <\/span>Despite her age, which was 88, L’Engle’s passing hit me fairly hard. <\/span>It took a while to decide what if anything to say about it. <\/span>A recent batch of storms helped me figure out what to say.
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<\/span>“Wild nights are my glory.”
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<\/span>Even though I read those words way back in fourth grade, even now, as I gaze out of our window and see a storm blowing in I say to myself, “Wild nights are my glory.” <\/span>Those words were said by Mrs. Whatsit in Madeleine L’Engle’s book “A Wrinkle in Time.”
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<\/span>I had not been much of a reader. <\/span>Then, in fourth grade our teacher, whose name I can no longer recall, forced us to read “A Wrinkle in Time.” <\/span>When I say forced, I mean forced. <\/span>We would sit in class and take turns reading it aloud. <\/span>You could not escape it. <\/span>I wish I could remember his name, because he changed my life forever.
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<\/span>“A Wrinkle in Time” slowly crept into my subconscious. <\/span>I couldn’t stop thinking about it. <\/span>Meg, the awkward idiot\/genius with a fierce heart. <\/span>Charles Wallace, the young boy who represents the next step in human evolution. <\/span>The twins, so remarkably normal. <\/span>Mrs. Murray, the beautiful scientist with the violet eyes. <\/span>Calvin O’Keefe, the sport. <\/span>Mrs. Who, Mrs. Whatsit, and Mrs. Which, forces of nature, forever giants in my mind. <\/span>It, the giant pulsating brain of my childhood nightmares. <\/span>And the tesseract. <\/span>Always the ant on the edge of a skirt.
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<\/span>The fourth grade will always be a significant grade. <\/span>Every child I have ever shopped for has received the book “A Wrinkle in Time” as a gift the year they are in the fourth grade. <\/span>No matter how old I get, I will never forget that in the fourth grade I read “A Wrinkle in Time”.
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<\/span>September 6, 2007 Madeleine L’Engle passed away at the age of 88. <\/span>I doubt she’ll ever know how much she changed my life, but I’m sure she knows how many lives she touched.
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<\/span>It’s starting to rain now. <\/span>I can hear the thunder.
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<\/span>“Wild nights are my glory.”
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