LSAE 5.19

Open Ended

Scenario: While playing outside during recess, a tiny alien spaceship lands, and a friendly alien asks you for help finding their lost spaceship key.
What would be your internal response?
What would be your external response?

Open Ended

Quote: “She had found her father and he had not made everything all right. Everything kept getting worse and worse. If the long search for her father was ended, and he wasn’t able to overcome all their difficulties, there was nothing to guarantee that it would all come out right in the end. There was nothing left to hope for. She was frozen, and Charles Wallace was being devoured by IT, and her omnipotent father was doing nothing. She teetered on the seesaw of love and hate, and the Black Thing pushed her down into hate.”

Open Ended

Quote: “You don’t even know where we are!” she cried out at her father. “We’ll never see Mother or the twins again! We don’t know where Earth is! Or even where Camazotz is! We’re lost out in space! What are you going to do?” She did not realize that she was as much in the power of the Black Thing as Charles Wallace.

Open Ended

Quote: “My daughter, I am not a Mrs Whatsit, a Mrs Who, or a Mrs Which. Yes, Calvin has told me everything he could. I am a human being, and a very fallible one. But I agree with Calvin. We were sent here for something. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”

Open Ended

Quote: “Shoot you, I guess,” Calvin admitted.

“Then isn’t that what we should do with you?”

Calvin’s freckles seemed to deepen, but he answered quietly. “I’d really rather you didn’t. I mean, the earth’s my home, and I’d rather be there than anywhere in the world—I mean, the universe—and I can’t wait to get back, but we make some awful bloopers there.”

Open Ended

Quote: “We do not know what things look like, as you say. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing, this seeing.”

“What a very strange world yours must be!” the beast said, “that such a peculiar-seeming thing should be of such importance. Try to tell me, what is this thing called light that you are able to do so little without?”