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
Maybe it will be possible to run that cattle drive in reverse tomorrow...
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It may have been in the air. It was the same for the hospice hot line yesterday. Some people tend to leave things until the eleventh hour frequently. Fridays nights always bring a lot of last minute calls.
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ReplyDeleteThe visual for the day--my 260# patient ripping off his monitor leads and getting up out of bed through the bedrails so that he could stand and pee ON TOP OF his bed.
...That was before the restraints:>)
Surprisingly those scenes are not on Grey's Anatomy.
The photo was so funny to me, but then I just read your reply to comments and THAT is even funnier!
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