This came today.
Wendell Berry's first new fiction in six years. I meant to mention in the post about Hannah Coulter that it had just been published. It's twenty stories about the Port William membership. I'm really excited.
What I've been doing lately instead of writing.
Babysitting
That's my middle granddaughter. I figured a faceless picture would be okay with her mother.
Going to the zoo. We have a great zoo.
Right before I took this picture, four martial arts experts fought a battle to the death. You should have seen them leaping through the air, flying over the top of the buildings. The girl with the long sword was really great. Unfortunately, by the time I got my phone out of my purse, it was all over.
I tried to get this guy to speak parseltongue to me, but no luck. He is much larger than he looks in this picture. I wish there was some close to judge the scale by. That hand is a good ways in front of the cage, so it gives a deceptive idea of the difference. I doubt he could get his hand halfway around the snake.
These guys had such a good time that they obviously stayed too long.
Visiting my other daughter in Normal, IL, where I found out that there's hope for churches built in the mid-sixties if somebody decides to take on the challenge.
This window is in the adoration chapel. I posted a picture of the chapel in the Hannah Coulter post.
I just found out that you can click on the pictures to enlarge them.
I just found out that you can click on the pictures to enlarge them.
I'd tell you about my weekend, but I don't think my trip to the grocery store was very interesting.
AMDG
I haven't been to a zoo in a long time. Sounds like fun. Is that wolf-sort-of-thing actually white, or just overexposed because he or she is in the sun? Also, how do you know the snake is a guy?
ReplyDeleteActually, I guess isn't a guy. It purports to be named Lucy, but I'm not sure how that can possibly be true.
ReplyDeleteAMDG
And yes, the wolf is white, but not quite as radiant as s/he looks in the picture.
ReplyDeleteAMDG
You don't think it's possible for a snake to be named Lucy?
ReplyDeleteWell, she (I guess there must be female snakes, but it's had to believe.) doesn't look like she's filled with light, but you got me thinking. Maybe she's named after her father.
ReplyDeleteAMDG
Well now, this is an interesting bit of archetype-trafficking: I certainly don't find it hard to believe that a snake could be female. Wasn't Voldemort's snake female?
ReplyDeleteWell, I'm thinking physically and you are thinking more of personality or something like that.
ReplyDeleteThe archetype is always pictured as male, but I guess he's really neither.
AMDG