Aptly
titled, A ROOMFUL OF QUESTIONS (Tracy Gallup) is a simple and short book
dealing with life and living. The artfully illustrated book begins with a quote
from Rainer Maria Rilke—“…be patient
toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions
themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign
tongue. Do not seek the answers…Live the questions now.” The book then
commences to pose thought-provoking questions designed to make the reader pause
and think. Many of the questions might be ones directed to the Creator, such as
“Who plants the seeds in the garden of thought?” Others are downright
humanistic (“Is magic in every one of us?”), while still others might have
multiple answers for the same person depending on their circumstances of life,
such as “Are tears the beginning or the end of things?” Regardless of motive,
however, the most endearing part of this short 16-page poetic book is the
drawings, which in each case put into sight the words that dot each page, all
the while posing questions designed to make the reader think.
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