Illumination

Proud Lion
Louise Wolbers

“Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy

--all those things matter less than what your heart contains.

If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior.

All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp,

but you are the light inside.”

― Cassandra Clare

Composition By:

Kay Lynn Gabaldon

October, 2015

Contemplation

portrait of a girl Lena
Kharinova Uliana

“We live and breathe words.
It was books that made me feel that
perhaps I was not completely alone.
They could be honest with me, and I with them.
Reading your words, what you wrote,
how you were lonely sometimes and afraid,
but always brave; the way you saw the world,
its colors and textures and sounds,
I felt--I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt.
I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you.
I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted
-- and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.”

Cassandra Clare

Composition By:

Kay Lynn Gabaldon

October, 2015