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On Life. . .
You mustn't wish for another life.
You mustn't want to be somebody else.
What you must do is this:
"Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing.
In everything give thanks."
I am not all the way capable of so much,
but those are the right instructions.
Wendell Berry, from Hannah Coulter, 2004
On Love. . .
"But I knew too that he was thinking of me. My steadfast comfort for fifty years and more had been to know that I was on his mind. Whatever was happening between us, I knew I was on his mind, and that was where I wanted to be." Wendell Berry, from Hannah Coulter
How oh how have I not yet read Hannah Coulter? I am promising myself the pleasure of this novel. Eight hundred pages of George Eliot's Middlemarch (1871) to read for my December book club. But then on to this wonderful book. What a lovely few months I have in front of me. What are you reading?
