Yesterday Thea and I finished The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. I’ve been thinking a lot about if she might have been a little young for it. She interrupted with a lot of questions, some of them tangential (what color dress is Lucy wearing, for example). But some of them were good questions, like: is Mr. Tumnus right in calling himself a Bad Faun? He was nice but pretending to be mean but pretending to be nice but also actually nice? And then the matter of Edmund: did we hate him or love him? We hated him and then loved him? And what
I slept strangely, Amanda, for two reasons: one grammatical (surely it should have been "Pevensees' or "one of the Pevensees'", but not "Pevensee's") and one altogether unforgivable (It was LUCY and not Susan who asked the question. I misremembered.)
I hope you all are weathering seclusion well. It is a good challenge.
Thank you, Amanda. In both tweets and essays, your introspective parenting inspires me to dig deeper as I navigate life with my nearly-a-decade-older-than-your-kids boys. And the way you see Covid-19 through the lens of Lewis helps me. You call to my mind Mr. Beaver's answer to the Pevensee's query about Aslan: “Aslan is a lion- the Lion, the great Lion." "Ooh" said Susan. "I'd thought he was a man. Is he-quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion"..."Safe?" said Mr Beaver ..."Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you.” Thanks again!
I slept strangely, Amanda, for two reasons: one grammatical (surely it should have been "Pevensees' or "one of the Pevensees'", but not "Pevensee's") and one altogether unforgivable (It was LUCY and not Susan who asked the question. I misremembered.)
I hope you all are weathering seclusion well. It is a good challenge.
Thank you, Amanda. In both tweets and essays, your introspective parenting inspires me to dig deeper as I navigate life with my nearly-a-decade-older-than-your-kids boys. And the way you see Covid-19 through the lens of Lewis helps me. You call to my mind Mr. Beaver's answer to the Pevensee's query about Aslan: “Aslan is a lion- the Lion, the great Lion." "Ooh" said Susan. "I'd thought he was a man. Is he-quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion"..."Safe?" said Mr Beaver ..."Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you.” Thanks again!