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
Yep, it's so. I don't think we're talking about the same pirates though. I'm sure none of the bad ones are as cute as Johnny.
ReplyDeleteIt's such a bummer when you lose your favorite show. It's happened to me lots through the years, beginning with "The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd." My favorite new show is "Life on Mars" and I hesitate even saying that because......well, you know why.
ReplyDeleteI would tell you how much I luuuuuuv "Life on Mars" but I also don't want to jinx anything.
ReplyDeleteI could never get into "Pushing Daisies." I do love "Life on Mars," though.
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