The Power of Small Moments: The Little Things that Make a Life
When we remember our favorite stories, we often think first of the climactic battles, traumatic events in the backstory, and world-rocking inciting incidents. But often, the scenes that resonate with us most—the turning points that make those climaxes possible, the...
Longing & Curiosity
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is a story of discovery because it is a story of desire. Longing is the wind that fills the story’s sails and drives the characters to the destinations along their individual journeys. Lost in a world he had no control over, Eustace...
Reepicheep: On Embracing Adventure
“This is a very great adventure, and no danger seems to me so great as that of knowing when I get back to Narnia that I left a mystery behind me through fear.” Reepicheep – The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S Lewis What do you do when you wake up to a dragon...
The Awakening of Eustace: Part IV
When the dragon Eustace came to the well, he thought the water would soothe his pain. The Lion had something much bigger in mind. For a moment Eustace was puzzled. How was he to undress? Then he KNEW. He knew about animals with scales and how they shed them. His...
The Awakening of Eustace Part III
Eustace Clarence Scrubb did not know how to be a dragon. His sharp tongue and pretentious vocabulary were useless in a dragon’s mouth, and his scaly limbs were better at smudging out his clumsy words in the sand than they were at writing them. In any case, he had...
The Awakening of Eustace: Part II
Eustace Clarence Scrubb did not like adventures. Adventures meant drowning in something you had no capacity to control. It meant reality shifting under your feet and seasickness as a reward for your attempts to stay upright. Out of all the impressive vocabulary...
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