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The rains came down and the floods came up

News ·Friday November 10, 2006 @ 20:56 EST (link)

Then Aslan turned to them and said:
"You do not yet look so happy as I mean you to be."
Lucy said, "We're so afraid of being sent away, Aslan. And you have sent us back into our own world so often."

"No fear of that," said Aslan. "Have you not guessed?"

Their hearts leaped and a wild hope rose within them.
"There was a real railway accident," said Aslan softly. "Your father and mother and all of you are—as you would say in Shadow-Lands—dead. The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning."

—The Last Battle, chapter XVI: Farewell to Shadow-Lands, C. S. Lewis.

Today we watched Shadowlands, a the story of C. S. Lewis, it was a very moving film, certainly worth watching. It was most poignant when they go out in the country to the Golden Valley and his wife Joy tries to prepare him for her imminent death: "The pain then is part of the happiness now. That's the deal."

There's been flooding in Duvall and nearby towns; 124th Street, the way I usually go to work, is closed; Woodinville-Duvall Road is open, but Novelty Hill is closed; I'm not sure why for the latter, possibly because of mudslides. I've been home all week anyway; it's sort of a quiet time after Office 12 and before Office 14.

Honey and I went up to BC yesterday; we stopped at Tim Horton's and also got some Remembrance Day poppies. I had to explain about the poppy and Remembrance Day in Canada; what do they teach them at these schools? Honey also finished Super Mario World and I won a few Warcraft games playing undead.

I recently bought a ring-bound copy of Hymns of Truth and Praise for the piano, through an Amazon reseller, "Dena Sabin, bookseller" (Amazon name "denasabinbookseller"); I today discovered a page was missing (Hymn #1, "How Great Thou Art", and #2 on the reverse), emailed the seller, and received a $10 partial refund, with which I am more than satisfied (the book cost $18.44 including tax, so I felt the refund was more than generous). I just wanted to positively comment about the prompt response; also the book itself arrived in good time and as promised. I hadn't noticed the missing page until now because I'd started playing in the middle of the book—the same place I was at in the non-ring book I'd been using.