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
Is Matt the owner?
ReplyDeletesad really........economic downturn....
ReplyDeleteIt is sad, but better to laugh in the face of adversity, than cry... so I'm told.
ReplyDeleteAt least he's got a sense of humour. I'm not sure I'd be able to smile if it was my store. Luck to him, I say.
ReplyDeleteAt least their Dignity is only slightly discounted!
ReplyDeleteWell, it's nice that they are able to get a laugh out of a bad economy. Very funny!
ReplyDeleteBetter laughter than tears.
ReplyDeleteI want some cheap dignity and the 60% off basic neurosurgery. Bittersweet...
ReplyDeleteA thousand comedians out of work and they're making jokes!
ReplyDeleteBetter to laugh than to cry.
ReplyDeleteHere's to gallows humor! I'm interested in the basic neurosurgery myself, if I can watch!
ReplyDeleteYou're all much more sensitive than I am obviously. Here I was all excited about the prospect of discount neurosurgery AND ham hocks all in one spot:>)
ReplyDeleteWhew!
ReplyDeleteWell thank you!
I laughed, hard.
My husband's company went out of business, last Sept, got a new job, and that company went out of business in Feb.
We must laugh...
if not we sink into morbid reflection...
Smiling thru the rain.