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
Love it! Best advice I have had all week!
ReplyDeleteWords of wisdom, unless you are a plumber who likes to pretend.
ReplyDeleteLove it! I'm going to post this one on my bathroom mirror.
ReplyDeleteWell, that made me smile!
ReplyDeleteRoger that, Lady Guinevere!
ReplyDeleteGood thing you got this up today because I was just on my way to the bathroom and the temptation is always there, staring up from the floor, to the left to the toilet.
Merci infiniement,
I agree, but tiaras are so last season. What is one to do?
ReplyDelete*laughing at all the comments*
ReplyDeleteI nominated you dear girl - I hope you don't mind!
http://365to42.blogspot.com/2009/07/free-competition-30-prize.html
Hilarious...
ReplyDeleteI suppose the sequel might be something like (?) :
Never pretend
To be an ostrich
By sticking your head in the toilet
(sorry!)
Why not?
ReplyDeleteWonderful! And great ripostes as well.
ReplyDeleteInteresting advice. I'd never thought of this before.
ReplyDeleteI've heard it said that boys cannot resist putting something with a suction cup on their forehead. So far, I find that true.
ReplyDeleteOh, if only someone had told me this years ago!
ReplyDeleteLove this!... A friend of mine's brother was once showing off in the milking parlour, he stuck one of the milking cups on his chin.... we had to go turn the machine off...lol!
ReplyDeleteIt reminded me of that, could be a farmers poem to young farmers; "Never pretend to be a cow's pap by sticking a suction cup to your chin"..