From Diane Setterfield's The Thirteenth Tale

People disappear when they die. Their voices, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living mempry of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet for some there is an exception to this annihilation. For in the books they write they continut to exist. We can rediscover them. Their humour, their tone of voice, their moods. Through the written word they can anger you or make you happy. They can comfort you. They can perplex you. They can alter you. All this, even though they are dead. Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic.

--Diane Setterfield



Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Jaedyn drinks from a cup

Captured for posterity...


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3 comments:

Ruth said...

Woo Hoo! Go Jaedyn!

Janika said...

And eats a potato whole? More info please.

Unknown said...

Haha... I don't remember why we had a potato on her tray. But she is getting better and better at eating. She has cheerio's DOWN!

I should do a post about that...