Madeleine L'Engle died yesterday . The world will be a poorer place without her. For those of you who don't know, my senior paper was on her wonderful book Walking on Water . The following quote was one of my favorites, because it put my life goal into words: An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in this world. Along with Plato’s divine madness there is also a divine discontent, a longing to find the melody in the discords of chaos... read more