My day did get off to a great start - we awoke to a double rainbow! What a marvel of nature, the rainbow. A college roommate inspired in me a hatred of the cliche of rainbows and unicorns (dancing all over the walls of the room we shared--gaaaah!). But I am coming 'round to a new appreciation of these prisms of light and color, arcing a perfect 180-degree omen of goodness over the rain-soaked land.

The most quoted book critic of all time must be Dorothy Parker, whose one-liners are so memorable (e.g. Beauty is only skin-deep, but ugliness goes to the bones), and too many fiction workshoppers tried to channel her, only to show of their "wit" with snide judgments of the writer with very little attention given to the actual words and ideas of the victim (the writer).

Susan Sontag, now, using her criticism to convey her enthusiasms, THAT is who should be the most enduring and loved of "critics."

Let kindness reign, in abundance. :)