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
This is not the Jesus who was struck by lightning and burned yesterday?
ReplyDeleteYes!!! It's Touchdown Jesus!!
ReplyDeleteI laughed and laughed over that. Does that make me a heathen?
Yes, Ms. Rider, one and the same. Couldn't take the heat!
ReplyDeleteBut did you hear? Like the Terminator, BBJ will be back, better than before. Wait...was that the Six Million Dollar Man? "We can rebuild him, bigger, better, stronger, faster..."? Never mind. I love, though, how the pastor refused to say that the lightning strike was was an Act of God! Hey, if lightning isn't an Act of God, then WTF is?
ReplyDelete