"It is really just a full circle, miracle story," Winfrey said May 11, "that a little colored girl born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, on a red dirt road ends up with my name on a street in the greatest city in the world, Chicago".
As I look south-west towards the wonderfully named Cronkley Scar, I am struck by the absolute weirdness of our everyday world: by a tale so strange that I have no need of the supernatural to make my Easter seem full of miracles.
And the marvellously named Victor Gauntlett, vintage-car driver and pilot, looks gloriously suburban haut-bourgeois, with his study full of The Miracle of Speed symbols in pictures and models, while the room's decoration and furnishings are all Home Counties 1919 in sympathies.
130 miniatures from the second half of the 19th century, including full illuminations depicting miracles of the Virgin.
The story of tobacco has come full-circle, from miracle cure to dangerous addiction.
The world is full of small miracles like these, his work reminds us.
The lack of distinction among the six children seals the characters' fates: They aren't meant to experience full lives, only miracles.
Los Angeles is full of little miracles like this — neighborhood institutions where someone scraped and saved and hustled and crafted something original.
For boundless (and likely hasty) enthusiasm, department of excessive politicians, they were matched by comments from the German economics minister, Rainer Brüderle, who said the country was experiencing "a little job miracle," with full employment a reasonable perspective.
