“The Book of Qualities” is one of my all-time favorite books and one I regularly recommend. J. Ruth Gendler, the author, personifies human characteristics, both in words and in many cases with a drawing. For instance, about patience she writes:

“Patience wears my grandmother’s filigree earrings. She bakes marvelous dark bread. She has beautiful hands. She carries great sacks of peace and purses filled with small treasures. You don’t notice her right away in a crowd, but suddenly you see her all at once, and then she is so beautiful you wonder why you never saw her before.”

Wonderful, yes?

I like to periodically pick up my ragged copy, in which I’ve written notes, and open to a random page. Something meaningful always takes place.

Today’s Question: What’s a book that you often return to?