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
I will take that image with me to the grave. It makes me feel so much better about the whole thing. PhotoShop has moved beyond just excommunicating the party-faithful Stalin dacha bashes and gone on to creating a peace we can live with.
ReplyDeleteOn another note, I will be so happy when Obama is Prez and Sarah goes on to the bigger and better things that I hope her 15 weeks of fame demonstrate are her destiny. Much like Al Gore's transformation from US politician to world ambassador of, among other things, all things green, I believe that she struck a chord among Americans with children with disabilities and I hope that she will be able to use that for the greater good in a way that is socially productive.
Interesting photo. Does first dude know about this?
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