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Music, Musings, Poetry, Piano Rolls and Life Stuff. Personal essays about the here and now.
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A drive to Wendell Berry land (opens the original)
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I already told you that I took a literary roadtrip to see the homes of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain and Henry David Thoreau. Well, it turns out that I should’ve been looking closer to home. I mean, people who like baseball visit ballparks right? People who collect bourbon make treks for a good sale. Well, I’ve enjoyed getting reconnected to the literature I’ve spent so much time with, learning about and revering. Back Home. Early August.I feel this pull to reread this book by Wendell Berry called
(Gonna Take a) Literary Road Trip (opens the original)
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We’re calling it my mid-life crisis. It was a sort of grab at all the places I’ve thought about and taught about and imagined over the years. I felt like the vacations were flying by and I was always thinking of the things I wanted to see most but choosing Beach instead. I love (the part where we all eat dinner somewhere near the) beach! I get (being together at the) beach! But I really don’t do Beach that well. I was antsy, and probably a little whiny in the winter and so my husband laid down t
In the Land of Good Fathers (opens the original)
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