Dear Alison, Your letter on Tuesday Love and Hope and Children's Books spoke to me in just the way I needed it to. I found love and hope in your letter, and beauty too. Beauty surrounds us, and if we let it, beauty will pull us into a tight embrace. So Alison, I want to share with you some beauty I discovered during a recent visit to the Museum of Modern Art or MoMA. The human body in all its forms... Pablo Picasso's Head of a Sleeping Woman The swirling dripping beauty of a night... Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night The beauty of a memory including all the jagged painful edges because those wounds led us to the path we travel today... I forgot to take a picture of the artist name plate and I couldn't find it in my searches. If you know it, please leave a comment. (It reminds me of a book in one of my favorite book and movie series.) Beauty in all it's complexity even in times of violence and upheaval... Umberto Bo...