Status Updates From Pelgrim langs Tinker Creek

The comparisons to Thoreau are apt. Whenever I have a hard time penetrating her style, I'll start reading aloud, and then my voice will tighten as I stumble across something profound in real time. Now when I go for my walks I think, "how would Annie Dillard describe what I'm seeing right now?" Can't believe she was 28 when she wrote this.

“Experiencing the present purely is being emptied and hollow; you can catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.”

This book is so lovely. It really speaks to my soul.

“Time gives us a whirl. We keep waking up from a dream we can’t recall, looking around in surprise, and lapsing back, for years on end. All I want to do is stay awake, keep my head up, prop my eyes open, with toothpicks, with trees.”