Annie Dillard

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• Micro

  
  A Little Thinking — Authority: 131
  “‘Never lose a holy curiosity,’ Einstein said; and so I lift my microscope down from the shelf, spread a drop of duck pond on a glass slide, and try to look spring in the eye.” -Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek My circumstances are nowhere near those of Ms. Dillard when she wrote those essays.  I ...
  2 days ago

• Books 38-40 en route to 52 (I hope)!

  
  bigBADbobby.blogspot.com — Authority: 123
  Its a race that Id considered giving up on, 52 books in 52 weeks, but lets measure my progress with 4 weeks to go... Book #40 = "Its Not About the Bike" by Lance Armstrong, 2/5 Stars Book #39 = "Dragonfly" by K.R. Dwyer (Dean Koontz), 3/5 Stars Book #38 = "Teaching a Stone to Talk" by Annie Dillard, 1/5 Stars ...
  2 days ago

• [SHARE_EBOOK] THE LIVING

  
  Free Download — Authority: 181
  [share_ebook] The Living Author: Annie Dillard Date: May 1992 ISBN: 0060179937 Pages: 65535 Language: English Publisher: Harpercollins; Limited edition Category: Novel Tag: History and Military Buy: << Buy This Book on Amazon >> Read more
  1 week ago

• The replacements

  
  Hoarded Ordinaries — Authority: 424
  Wednesdays are precious because I can sleep without an alarm clock, waking and then walking whenever the sun stirs me. On teaching days, Reggie and I walk in the dim-lit morning or after-dark evening, but on Wednesdays, we can visit in full daylight the various neighborhood landmarks we see only faintly on other ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Quote by Annie Dillard

  
  A Blogger and a Father — Authority: 403
  Young children have no sense of wonder. They bewilder well, but few things surprise them. All of it is new to young children, after all, and equally gratuitous. Their parents pause at the unnecessary beauty of an ice storm coating the trees; the children look for something to throw. The children who tape colorful fall ...
  3 weeks ago

• Annie Dillards Living by Fiction

  
  Madam Mayo — Authority: 125
  New on my list of recommended books on the creative life: Annie Dillards Living by Fiction, a book about... the world. Ive had it on my shelf for years; finally re-read it last week. What a splendid book. Shes also a master of the intended diction drop-- which is sometimes hilarious. More anon.Update: Very fun: ...
  3 weeks ago

• Healthy Success: Create a Successful Life Without Killing Yourself

  
  Prescriptions for Life — Authority: 100
  From the first time I met Maria, she awed me with her careless beauty, impeccable style, and spontaneous hilarity. I secretly hoped that when I reached my 50s, Id manage to be a little bit like her. It wasnt until she became a client that she told me a secret that few others know: Maria has multiple ...
  4 weeks ago

• Sun and such.

  
  Loose Luggage — Authority: 116
  “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
  4 weeks ago

• Shabbos

  
  Meta Watershed — Authority: 126
  “Once, in Israel, God appeared in the doorway, and we were sore afraid.” Annie Dillard Let us now set aside our profane belief in corpus control and embrace sacred humility With yeast and egg seed and must Let us bow our will to that power beyond our texts: How our mucus membranes will repair themselves Flesh ...
  5 weeks ago

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