{"id":1581,"date":"2007-10-03T19:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T19:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2007\/10\/03\/wild-nights-are-my-glory\/"},"modified":"2007-10-03T19:06:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T19:06:00","slug":"wild-nights-are-my-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2007\/10\/03\/wild-nights-are-my-glory\/","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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