"In the evening Alice sat on her grandfather’s knee and listened to his stories of faraway places. When he had finished, Alice would say, "When I grow up, I too will go to faraway places, and when I grow old, I too will live beside the sea."
"That is all very well, little Alice, "said her grandfather, "but there is a third thing you must do."
"What is that?" asked Alice.
"You must do something to make the world more beautiful," said her grandfather.
--Miss Rumphius, by Barbara Cooney
Audrey Hotchkiss holds a Bachelor's Degree of Fine Arts from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston with a concentration in photography. Living in Portland, Maine, inspired by the ocean, mountains and seasons all around us, just trying to make the world a little bit more beautiful.
