Out, into the limpid gold of autumn I walked today, for the first time in several weeks. I looked across at the foothills this morning and saw the first turning of the leaves flickering across their faces like laughter. There won’t be many days with this kind of joy. We had snow this week; three [...]
Entries from September 2009
September 24, 2009
My October(ish) Book List
Standing by Words by Wendell Berry
Lilith by George MacDonald
A Circle of Quiet, by Madeleine L’Engle
Norton Anthology of Romantic Literature
The Brontes: Charlotte Bronte and Her Family, by Rebecca Fraser
I’m looking for a novel to complete this. I’m vacillating between a good classic Dickens or Thomas Hardy, or maybe a more soulful Goudge, or perhaps something modern. [...]
September 18, 2009
A High Beauty
I think I made it 25 days of straight posting, or thereabouts. Not quite thirty, but close. I am on my second week of soul, body, and mind recovery (a friend laughed out loud when I said that today) after the maddest of crazed summers. I have just stepped foot into the hush of the [...]
