Tremendous Trifles

Some kids leave a trail of crumbs to find their way home, Torrey leaves a trail of books. Although I think she finds her way into a thousand new worlds along the trail. She's just started reading Tremendous Trifles, a collection of essays on the tremendous wonder packed into the tiniest corners of life. When that's too heavy, not to worry she's left a book in every nook and cranny of the house to pick up whenever she happens to enter that particular cranny.

Chesterton Quote of the Day

"Fairy Tales, then, are not responsible for producing in children fear, or any of the shapes of fear; fairy tales do not give the child the idea of the evil or the ugly; that is in the child already, because it is in the world already. Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon. 

      Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms him for a series of clear pictures to the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit, that these shapeless enemies have enemies in the knights of God, that there is something in the universe more mystical than darkness, and stronger than fear."

-G.K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles