“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
― Annie Dillard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Dillard

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"What goes on in his brain the rest of the time? What does a weasel think about? He won’t say. His journal is tracks in clay, a spray of feathers, mouse blood and bone: uncollected, unconnected, loose-leaf, and blown." —Annie Dillard

I should probably reread "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" now that I think about it. And, since I have never read "Teaching a Stone to Talk," which this quote is from, I should probably read that again too.

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“You can heave your spirit into a mountain, and a mountain will keep it, folded, and not throw it back.”

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Reading one of my favorite theological texts with the Ecological Theologies class — Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. It’s definitely nature writing, but once you start looking for the theology, it’s everywhere and it’s really profound stuff.

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#AnnieDillard Pilgrim at Tinker Creek: #Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a world to compass these things, a world that is a long, brute game, then we bump against another #mystery: the inrush of power and light, the canary that sings on the skull. Unless all ages and races of men have been deluded by the same mass hypnotist (who?), there seems to be such a thing as #beauty, a #grace wholly #gratuitous.

https://www.theattic.space/home-page-blogs/2021/7/8/annie-at-tinker-creek
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True heir to Thoreau? I wouldn't saddle anyone with that... but if pressed I might suggest Annie.

Tossing Aside the Blindfold
"In the eighteenth century, when educated European tourists visited the Alps, they deliberately blindfolded their eyes to shield themselves from the evidence of the earth’s horrid irregularity. It is hard to say if this was not merely affectation, for today, newborn infants, who have not yet been taught our ideas of beauty, repeatedly
https://alexandersmap.com/2022/12/27/tossing-aside-the-blindfold/
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If your day includes time for quiet reading, this piece by writer and poet Devin Kelly is really beautiful. https://ordinaryplots.substack.com/p/galway-kinnells-the-26th-of-december?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=56151&post_id=92492107&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email #poetry #grief #family #childhood #GalwayKinnell #Christmas #Grandma #father #AnnieDillard #JaneKenyon #MartinBuber