Status Updates From The Faraway Nearby

“You can speak as though your life is a thread, a narrative unspooling in time, and a story is a thread, but each of us is an island from which countless threads extend out into the world” (144)

“Maybe preservatives are where a historian’s urges meet a cook’s capacities. I wish that I could put up yesterday’s evening sky for all posterity, could preserve a night of love, the sound of a mountain stream, a realization as it sets my mind afire […], line them up in jars where they might be admired in the interim and tasted again as needed” (82-83).