An Ode to Ella D.

Ella Darnell IS to rehabilitating others what Berthe Morisot was in fact to painting -conscience to the divine, in other words. And, so, too, I'm saying (as I'm listening to Patty Loveless singing.....in her hootenanny style), the "fragrance" of HER approach, Ella's, to the paths of those with far less fortune is as well apparent to me. Of course, the utmost testimony is that even if I were in fact a blind man reaching for a book to read (Willa Cather's "Shadows on the Rock", perhaps) the essence of her kindness as it parries in the shadows is itself a much more substantive Cecile - this, at least when it comes to me.