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
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ReplyDeleteYe gads! If that was on the up-and-up Mr. D Paul deserved the letdown!
ReplyDeleteLOL......!!!.. Was just moved to tears on writerquake, now I'm laughing heartily.. i love this blog thing.. lol..cheers!
ReplyDeleteroflmao!
ReplyDeleteYou're right-it would sound better with a British accent.
ReplyDeleteSo that's why I'm not getting job offers...HR people don't like being called a shank ho. Who knew?
ReplyDeleteThere'll always be an England...
ReplyDeleteOh, dear. I'm still laughing!
ReplyDeleteI'm gonna have to remember that think about not calling somebody a "skank ho" in a job...it might explain a lot about my current lack of employment....
ReplyDeleteExcellent! I love letters like this and yes it should be read in an English accent (not really any such thing as a British accent, take your pick from Scots, Northern Irish, Welsh and English :-))
ReplyDeleteHilarious. And so posh, in its clipped British accent. LOL
ReplyDeleteI suspect, as you all might also, that this is a bit of a joke. Yet, it still makes me laugh. Point taken, Argent about the English accent. I'm imaging Hugh Laurie reading this out loud.
ReplyDeletehahaha, that is awesome.
ReplyDeleteHilarious and refined! How do the British do it?
ReplyDeleteI love the british :-).
ReplyDeleteHigh-freaking-lairous!
ReplyDeletethis goes into my stories of recruitment and it just keeps getting better :-)
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