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
He brought us a lot of enjoyment over the years and sadly people took so much of his joy away. Rest in Peace Michael Jackson.
ReplyDeleteThat man is responsible for my bunions -- and I'm OK with that.
ReplyDeleteThe Michael Jackson I loved as a child and young adult died a long time ago, but I still can't believe he's gone at 50, so young.
ReplyDeleteWhat Kathleen said? Yeah, that!
ReplyDeleteThriller energized my life at a time when I was very low. I will never forget the feeling of coming back to life when I played the album, when I heard it playing all around the neighborhood where I lived.
are you sure its not the Other Guy getting some dancing tips?
ReplyDeleteYou know, the one from the wrong side of town?
I suspect the Devil knows how to dance like a rock star:>) and that Michael lived through his own hell here on earth. I hope he is somewhere at peace.
ReplyDeleteI blame it on the boogie.... :-)
ReplyDeleteHope he's moonwalking in peace now!
What a talented and troubled soul.
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Michael was a true artist, a genius. He left our world with a magical legacy. Hopefully he has now found real peace that he did not always have from his very early days.
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