Smack Dab in the Middle

  Irene Latham reading This month we're talking about Beauty—which I love, because "Beauty" is my 2024 One Little Word. One way beauty finds its way into my life is through the books I read.  For as long as I can remember I have recorded beautiful words...for joy, education, inspiration! Once upon a time I'd handwrite passages into a journal. These days I create a digital file for any book I want to highlight or dog-ear.  Some of these files are pages long.  Others contain just a single quote or passage. Today I'd like to share with you a small sampling taken from my alphabetized-by-book-title "MG/YA" sub-folder in my much larger "Books I've Read" folder. Enjoy! She had never seen waves before, Her eye rested upon them, fascinated; how much time passed, or how any waves she tracked, she had no idea. Farther out to sea, they weren’t waves at all, only mounds, like furrows in a field. Then, somehow, each mound rose to an edge, thin as the bla