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
Well put. Squeaking and squawking is about all I've heard around here lately.
ReplyDeleteI highly recommend ETOH. To be truthful though, you should have started tanking up a week ago when the dirtbags and their ads first moved into town. Fear not my friend, the second it's over, so are their ads. Life will be shockingly normal tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteHope so! Hubby is singing his Ron Paul song--basically singing the name over and over again--so the commercials are a pleasant reprieve :>) Paul is running 11.3% right now in Ohio--Hubby's taking credit for that .3%. We won't have to see too much of the elections--it'll be an early night; I have to be in the hospital at 0630.
ReplyDeleteoh my ....I have become so disillusioned...maybe just getting old....smiles
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