making pretty things

"It's better to make pretty things, I find, than just useful ones." --Joy Davidman Lewis, quoted in Lyle Dorsett, And God Came In I roam the pages of my journal for suitably pithy quotes to launch my writing here, and find this one, from a 1983 biography of C. S. Lewis' wife. I can't help…

Five Minute Friday: Beautiful

Five Minute Friday with Lisa Jo. Today's word: beautiful. (Although, obviously, today is Saturday, I did write this on Friday.) And I've not been looking for "beautiful" this week -- I've been focused on "needy," forgetting that beauty is a need, that needs can be beautiful. Thirteen hours driving south and east, and thunderstorms every…