Today's 'scratched my brain just right' sentence. 🎨
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Today's 'scratched my brain just right' sentence. 🎨
pickThis really lovely book is by a woman who has been a shepherdess for over 20 years focusing on pastoralism in Vermont. It‘s meditative and delves into her deep connection with the land. It reminds me totally of Raising Hare. I loved it.
#NBAlonglist, nonfiction
pickA true religious pilgrimage, even if confined to the few square miles around Tinker Creek, near Dillard's home in Virginia. The journey here is internal. This is the best nature writing I've ever had the pleasure to read, not an ounce of sentimentality or nostalgia, no rote cliches about nature's grandeur. It is grand though, and ugly and mystifying and disgusting and beautiful. Life's mysteries distilled into one tiny plot of land.
Recent acquisition for our personal library.
pickTake a deep dive into different aspects of bird intelligence. I enjoyed learning about many birds native to my area from blue jays and chikadees to crows, and many I am not familiar with as well. The author takes a look at intelligence in birds' natural habitats, as well as intelligence shown for human purposes. #Birds #Nature #Nonfiction
pickI understand why Humphreys titled the book The Ghost Orchard. It is absolutely the strongest section (followed by that on Robert Frost, and The Imagined Discovery of the White Winter Pearmain). The way in which she grafts the story of her relationship with both her friend and her father, and their deaths, onto the story of the apple is brilliant. The Parafilm that seamlessly binds the stories is Frost‘s friendship with the poet Edward Thomas.👇🏻
"The world would count itself lucky if we were vultures or crows. An actual vulture turns death into feathers, and actual crow turns flesh into flight."
“It was all praise and miracle. Edward Thomas was right about a line of apples being the same as a line of poetry in another language.”
It‘s fun to be reading about the Robert Frost Interpretive Trail.
I always stop on the way home from visiting one of my friends in VT. It‘s not a long trail (nor is it The Long Trail) but it‘s one of my favorite little walks!
It‘s nice to remember, especially in November, that it can be a blessing to live in New England. Romanticize your life, right?
