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
You tell it like it is sister :-)!
ReplyDeleteExactly, pray tell, what is wrong with a community organizer? Barack's experience as such occurred when he was 23 and prior to law school. It's not exactly something to be ashamed of. I'm off to go find myself an Obama/Biden lawn sign....
ReplyDeleteThanks for checking in...Only time will tell, they say they will know if they got all the cancer in two weeks...XOXO
ReplyDeletePleeaase don't go get all political on us. The contention it would bring would be disasterous.
ReplyDeleteI love your blog and check in regularly for a moment of peace and realization that the outside world is beautiful still. (I too often work in a neroramville).
I LOVED this post. Rather than contentious, it was as forthright a piece as I've seen this political season. With pictures of the Great Ones you reminded us that the peace keepers are blessed and have been blessings to humanity.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed a weekend break from blogging and I wish your week will be a marvelous unplugged adventure. I absolutely understand what you mean about your old life. Finding a balance is a real concern.
I came to this post a week late but would like to thank you for it.
ReplyDeleteJust seeing the faces of these community organizers restored my faith in the concept of a collective historical memory.
Have a nice break.