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Nostalgia for The October Country read every summer along the St Croix & a reading slump have brought me here. I’m glad.

Picked this up at the thrift today and getting haunting yesteryear flashbacks (woman, midlife, jarring inner monologue)

“In fact, when you really think about it, the very atoms of which we are made were once something else. We were once a rock, we were trees, now we are humans. Somehow there is memory, there is resonance. The natural world is inherently meaningful. It is symbolic and reflecting of the internal reality of human beings. Each of us is, in effect, a universe in miniature”

Food for thought!

everything great then boom racism

What I would give for Rachel Carson’s voice in modern day

Surprise! Learning about SCOTUS from an unlikely source right now.

I cannot believe I’ve never read any of this before? Unbelievably wonderful & I’m nowhere near done.

Part two of the book is all about volcanoes and lava and Iceland and Hawaii. Safe to say I hope to never be present at an active eruption where it is raining ash and fire and poison and glass and bombs. But really really cool to see geology sped up where mountains are made in a week, and how that changes people & the land. I’ll visit a volcano one day & see new rock and the vastness of it all :)

Just learned so much more about the atchafalaya and the Mississippi River and Louisiana history and Cajun people and river locks and levees than I knew existed! My own perception of the Mississippi has been shaped by Minnesota, by lake itasca, the 694 bridge, and boom island. Now I know there’s a whole world south to catch & release all I know. I need to visit the atchafalaya and southern Louisiana!

CS Lewis loves to make a great point and then say something crazy immediately after

I’m in a trance reading this book

Suzy Collins you’re throwing everyone in here huh??

I am so ready to be done with this book.

Isabel Allende what’s goin on