Books - Worth the Candle

Centuries ago, when people knew how much labor went into making a single candle, the decision to burn one involved real consideration. A night-time activity that didn't provide real value or true pleasure would be deemed "not worth the candle" needed to illuminate it.

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"The wind came back with triple fury, and put out the light for the last time. They sat in company with the others in other shanties, their eyes straining against crude walls and their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny might against His. They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God." - Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston

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"I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands...." — Zora Neale Hurston

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“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” ― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God. ***Beautiful book cover from Lady Grey Illustration

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"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board." Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

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"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time." - Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God.

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"If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me?" OUT OF AFRICA

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"Out of Africa," - "I had a farm in Africa ..." by Isak Dinesen (aka Karen Blixen).

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Summer 2012 PC Postcard swap - Front of my postcard. That's Karen Blixen, aka Isak Dinesen, the author of Out of Africa, and a picture of the house she lived in. The background quote is the opening lines from the book.