Lisa’s Reviews > A Far-Flung Life > Status Update

We think we know who we are: that each day, we'll wake up more or less the same person. Bu just as rocks are weathered, we are perpetually formed and changed by time and experience until we leave this world with not a single cell we came in with. . . . Sometimes, instead of a gradual metamorphosis, a single event changes a life completely, and when it does, it changes everyone who has ever loved them.

Above all, you keep them [the sheep station diaries] because, a day at a time, they help you make sense of the world; add shape and meaning to a life as subject to chance as any roll of the dice.