What, in nature, Kit asked, is the most beautiful thing you've seen? Or the most terrible?The Dismals, Giles answered promptly. A beautiful aberration in the lay of the land--North Alabama. A section...
Reading, he claims, would broaden my experience of the world. The ideas to be found in serious books would deepen my thinking about every choice I make.
Pardon me, dear human self, capable of the most heinous degradation, capable of soaring.
I spiraled slowly down the steps, the soft way a milkweed seed sometimes twirls to earth. I wanted time for any vague thought to come to mind that mind should want. No new ones came, but the pace seem...
He prayeth best who loveth best all things both great and small.
Do you know why sailors wear gold in their ears? Uncle asked me. It was the law, long ago, that a sailor had to have on his person enough gold to bury him should he wash ashore. So the seaside folk wo...
That's the way it is in life. You let go of what is beautiful and unique. You pursue something new and don't even know that the wind of your own running is a thief.
That night, though I was weary with the day, I took to the roof again.... My fingertips rested lightly on the wooden rail. I could not know if stars were equal to each other, but if they were, then th...
S IS THE SOUND of the sea. Her surge and suck, her spray and surf. Sometimes she seethes. She knows the sound of smooth. With her s, the sea marries the shore, and then there is scamper and slush in t...