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
Putting aside all the horrid things happening around the world, thank you for this image. I like that the image above them is of violence; it relays hope that we will remember, will get better, will ...wear suits...and play cards?
ReplyDeleteI don't know what this means, but the picture makes me happy, and since Mrs Shambles put the kabash on the framed "A Friend in Need" dogs playing poker picture I had, it makes me nostalgic.
Thank you.