Zen Pencils by Gavin Aung Than for July 22, 2024

Beautiful and so true. Thank you Carl.

Books take me places I might otherwise never visit. Places that might exist only in the mind of the author.

Yet with the wisdom of ages available to us, THIS is how we choose to live our life as a society?. . . . Sigh

The greatest gift you can give a child is the love of reading.

My mother gave me that, and my older brother left his book collection. I grew up on Sherlock Holmes, among others

Where’s a ‘like’ button when you need it?

Writing AND drawing!!

Bingo – hence my AHAD-influenced deafness (sigh)!!

And Carl was one of those magic makers.

Exactly!

Carl Sagan is one of my heroes.

Explains why book banning is bad policy…

Thank you, Gavin Aung Than, for being like that candle. You know… “How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world”.

So true. I’ve read since I was two. I still love it. When Mom wanted me to be quiet, she gave me a book. It worked.

I just checked, and all of these are available on Project Gutenberg, a website of public domain books =)

One of my favorites is “I seem to be a Verb.” – Buckminster Fuller

“Do you believe in magic in a young girl’s heart?

How the music can free her, whenever it starts

And it’s magic, if the music is groovy

It makes you feel happy like an old-time movie

I’ll tell you about the magic, and it’ll free your soul

But it’s like trying to tell a stranger ‘bout rock and roll. . ." – The Lovin’ Spoonful

Right you are!!