somewhere around 34 years ago, i read the Pulitzer-Prize winning “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek” by Annie Dillard. i have read all of her books since – thanks for sharing Annie!
this weekend, i finished reading “The Maytrees”. the next time i visit Cape Cod, Massachusetts, i will see things i didn’t see on my last visit back in the 1980s. it is always nice to brush up on your history when traveling or visiting somewhere – it makes all the difference in the world.
i love big words to look up and name dropping – i look them up too. if you don’t know what i mean, you may want to read Annie’s books – it will be like taking a class for extra credits about…well…
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“Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?”
“Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage and the possibility of meaningfulness, and will press upon our minds the deepest mysteries, so we may feel again their majesty and power?”
Annie Dillard, “The Writing Life” 1989
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