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Tis the season

Ufdah

"You cannot know how frightened gods are of pain. There is nothing more foreign to them. And so nothing they ache more deeply to see."

Round 2 'cause it's good.

Joy : the feeling that it is good for me to be here.

"To make mistakes is expected- to understand, address, and make them right is essential. "

I gotta quite the caffeine. 😳

"To imagine that men and women can be better, and are fated, most wonderfully to sometimes be together, is, in the end, to respect the strange marvel of human existence as whole."

After reading the Unsettling of America, I wanted to dig further into Berry's essays to try and grasp his posture towards the world more. This was the perfect volume to do so. Most influential essays I'd return to: Faustian Economics, Quantity Versus Form, and Feminism, the Body and the Machine. His writing about household, land, fidelity to a place, and walking and working carefully in the world are priceless.

"Something else to consider is the way the woodburning stove brings people into a very direct relationship with the weather. You are your own thermostat, you are the connections link between subzero temperatures outside and the relative warmth within. When you heat with wood...you start your fight against the cold. It's bitter and it bites, but you can do something about it. "

"The scent of fresh wood
Is among the last things you will forget
When the veil falls.
The scent of fresh white wood
In the spring sap time.:
As though life itself walked by you,
With dew in it's hair...." Hans Børli

Oh my gosh.

The king is taking a long time to return.

Scary and interesting so far.

Hobbits eat a lot.

On driving cars with "Safety Features": "The always near possibility of death by blunt trauma should not be made artificially remote from our consciousness."

Needing to sit up a little taller as most of it, so far, is going over my head.

It's taking me forever.

🤯

When I was with Garrpe we at least could share our fear as one shares bread, breaking it in two; bit now I was all alone in the black sea of the night and must brake upon myself the cold and the darkness and everything else

"we have absolutely no luggage to bring to Japan except our own hearts.

Uffdah.

This one will be on my bed stand for a while. Loving Tish's analogies even if they're a bit stretched at times. :)

I'm gonna need a friend to help me out.

Hmm. Another Dreher memoir?