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
So much in agreement.
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ReplyDeleteIsn't that the truth?
ReplyDeleteI love those signs! And you have had enough of winter, no question. Stay warm and safe!
ReplyDeleteThere is a school of thought...that says God is good and is in control of every individual thing that happens, every event, but that unfortunately the devil is in control of timing.
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Wonderful message...that God does answer prayers.
ReplyDeleteHey, I even got two snow days out of it, but this teacher says STOP!!!!
ReplyDeleteSeriously...smiles.
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