After a Games session down at Hyde Park this afternoon, Miss Ann asked me to read to the Form 1 boys. Turns out they were reading a personal favourite of mine, The Twits, by Roald Dahl. I should note that his works are huge here in England, and particularly at this school, which I love. My absolute, absolute, absolute favourite is George's Marvellous Medicine. It still makes me laugh 'til I cry! And I'm supposing you know about my luv for little-miss Veruca Salt...:)Aside from the humour, I love Dahl's wisdom, and the truth he speaks in his work. Here's what I found on the second page I read today...
"If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until it gets so ugly that you can hardly bear to look at it.
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely."
How lovely, eh? How true.
Bless.
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