Our Lady of Guadalupe

Title: Our Lady of Guadalupe

Author: Carmen T. Bernier-Grand

Illustrator: Tonya Engel

Rating: ★★★★★

Age Category: Children's Books

    A lovely retelling of Juan Diego and what happened at Guadalupe almost 500 years ago.

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 "Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific." - Aaron Copland -

Sonnet 40 by William Shakespeare

Sonnet 40

by William Shakespeare

Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all;
What hast thou then more than thou hadst before?
No love, my love, that thou mayst true love call;
All mine was thine before thou hadst this more.
Then if for my love thou my love receivest,
I cannot blame thee for my love thou usest;
But yet be blamed, if thou thyself deceivest
By wilful taste of what thyself refusest.
I do forgive thy robbery, gentle thief,
Although thou steal thee all my poverty;
And yet, love knows, it is a greater grief
To bear love's wrong than hate's known injury.
Lascivious grace, in whom all ill well shows,
Kill me with spites; yet we must not be foes.

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 "I used to think that music was like lace up on a garment, nice to have but not necessary. I have come to believe that music is absolutely essential to our community life." - George Eastman - 

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"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. - Albert Einstein -

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"Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is good, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but nevertheless dazzling, passionate, and eternal form." - Plato, as quoted by Sir John Lubbock -

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"[Music] is the 'arithmetic of sound' just as optics is the 'geometry of light.'" - Claude Debussy -