Katherine Paterson’s moving keynote address at Walking on Water: The Madeleine L’Engle Conference

Dear Ones,

Katherine Paterson gave a moving keynote address at the November 2019 Walking on Water conference. She talked about her writing process, what it means to have readers, and Birdie, the protagonist of her latest novel, still awaiting publisher’s edits. She moved the audience (and herself) to tears, and reminded us, as Madeleine said, that “in art we are once again able to do all the things we have forgotten; we are able to walk on water; we speak to the angels who call us; we move, unfettered, among the stars.”  Listen and watch her speech, and Sarah Arthur’s introduction, and be moved.

–cjv