Lovely Post

Published on May 28 2005

WHEN 'EVERY WORD IS JUST RIGHT,' WRITING TOUCHES THE SOUL - Yahoo! News

There's no grand lesson in today's column, no little truth struggling to break into your morning, just the sense of sadness that comes with the death of a writer whose words have been forgotten -- forgotten, except of course, like whatever scrap of paper you have stuffed in a blotter, or tucked in a drawer, or slid onto a shelf, or placed in a file to be read late at night when the kids are asleep and when the memories move with a slow canter, by those who read them.