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
...and spend your life, with all your love and happyness!
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I LOVE that! I constantly encourage my husband to do this with me. I may have to put this on a wall somewhere.
ReplyDeleteOh God, I love that!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteAnd she should know--she has spent hers so well!
ReplyDeleteThis is going on the wall. Thanks!
Love the sundial, too. Is that yours?
That's wonderful. Unfortunately I get to spend my afternoon in front of the computer. Fortunately I get to watch the sun and the trees through the window.
ReplyDeleteNice.
ReplyDeleteSigh and a smile.
ReplyDeletecounting only the happy, sunny hours.
ReplyDeleteAmen, brother Ben!
ReplyDeleteWe all need this reminder sometimes!
ReplyDeleteI love that!
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