A Year with EB White
"You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that."----- from Charlotte's Web I am a soul always drawn and fascinated by the idea of " A Year of...". A Year of Rumi. A Year of Calvin and Hobbes. A year cooking with Julia Child. A project that provides guidance for the year and a ruler we can measure inward growth in the course of our circle around the sun. One year, after an early marriage and an unsurprising--except to me--early divorce, I came across a book by Sue Hubbell titled A Country Year. I didn't plan for it to take a year to read, but it did. I only read it at night before I went t
My goal is to turn into a baseball nerd this year. I bought a Cubs coffee cup at the Chicago airport the other day. I am inching my way toward baseball nerd-dom.
ReplyDeleteYes!! You go,girl, baby steps! I had the opening day game on in my patient's room on the local radio station, WLW. That seems to be the way to really hear the game with the familiar voices of the hometown commentators. We always say that we're going to go down to a game, but the costs just keep going up and up and up.
ReplyDeleteI'l keep an ear out for tidbits about the Cubs and send them along to you in support of your quest for nerd-dom!!