May Day on the Canal

May Day on the Canal
Copyright 2013 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
16" x 20"

Claudia said, "But, Mrs. Frankweiler, you should want to learn one new thing every day."

"No," I answered, "I don't agree with that.  I think you should learn, of course, and some days you must learn a great deal.  But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up inside of you until it touches everything.  If you never take time out to let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you.  You can make noise with them, but never really feel anything with them.  It's hollow."

-E.L. Konigsburg, From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler