"A Wind in the Door" by Madeleine L'Engle - Done

This wasn’t as good as its prequel, and much harder to get into. In spite of this, there were a couple of aspects of the book that were fun.

One is the idea of kything, which means to consciously communicate with someone without speaking. It is a sort of telepathy and the characters must rely on it when they are in environments which are not conducive to the spoken word. I often kyth with my wife, where we seem to read each other’s minds, but I never had a word for it. Now I do.

L'Engle also plays delightfully with the idea that a human’s body could be construed to be an entire universe to submicroscopic entities, with the lives of those entities playing a considerably important role in the health and well being of the person. Conversely, it may be that our universe is a mere particle in some unimaginably larger being, an idea portrayed at the end of the film “Men in Black.”

I have a friend who when we were much younger, often said that we are pure energy and our entire universe is but a molecule in a hacky sack bean. Weird.