Blogs about: Annie Dillard

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Best of Lists...on any given day2 comments

oh wrote 4 days ago: The thing about any “best of…” list is that it will change on any given day accord … more »

Tags: BEST BOOK, Best Movie, best-of lists, Editors, Magazines, Out of Africa, Writers

Holy of Holies

Zelig wrote 1 week ago: I wrote this about six weeks ago and didn’t publish it because I didn’t know what to do … more »

Tags: God, Holiness, Motivations, reality check

The Writing Life: Quoting Annie Dillard15 comments

Eve wrote 2 weeks ago: I’ve mentioned writer Annie Dillard a few times in the past week because I’ve recently r … more »

Tags: Think About It, writing, writing

The Weekly Word for June ll is Fear of the Lord

Pamela wrote 3 weeks ago: Contemporary mystic Annie Dillard writes this about Sunday worship: “Does anyone have the foggiest … more »

Tags: déborah, Weekly Word, déborah, fear of the lord, Reconciliation, Weekly Word

The Maytrees

darklit wrote 1 month ago: The Maytrees: A Novel by Annie Dillard rating: 3 of 5 stars At first this book was very hard to f … more »

Tags: writing, goodreads.com, Jimmie Gilliam, Jimmie Gilliam Canfield, Poems, Poetry, Poets, The Maytrees

The Bering Strait Bridge! !!!! !!!!!!! !1 comment

wheatdear wrote 1 month ago: My parents were in town for a bit this weekend, and thanks to them, I’m newly obsessed with a … more »

Tags: eavan boland, Poetry, bering strait bridge, nigh-impassable, Pole of the Most Trouble, praying mantises, White Pepper

Find a Penny...Pick It Up?5 comments

annkroeker wrote 1 month ago: The reason The Belgian Wonder and I could take off for that getaway–the first official trip in … more »

Tags: Family, Motherhood, Children, Nature, simplicity, Frugality, Lifelong Learning, slowing

The Surprise of Tiny Purple Things8 comments

shoreacres wrote 1 month ago:   Texas beaches have their charm, but it can take time for Floridians, or Californians, or even … more »

Tags: Creativity, Inspiration, Life, Nature, beachcombing, Beaches, Florida, Naturalists, Oceans

Spend It

lfierbaugh wrote 1 month ago: Blue Hole, Elizabethton “Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.” Annie … more »

Tags: Blue Hole, Carter County, Elizabethton, water

Annie Dillard and the Funk of Writing and Reading Too Much1 comment

theexile wrote 1 month ago: Never, ever, get yourself into a situation where you have nothing to do but write and read. You … more »

Tags: Creative Nonfiction, My Writing, Reading, Writers, writing, Creative Nonfiction, Reading, writing

How To Make Use Of The Best American __________ Anthology3 comments

koreanish wrote 1 month ago: One of the first things I learned as a student of writing in Annie Dillard’s class at Wesleyan … more »

Tags: Writers, writing, Best American, Anthologies, the writing life, Personal Essays, Anne Carson

The Books I Can't Live Without

Darcy wrote 1 month ago: An article from the Times Online asked Sebastian Faulks, author of the new James Bond Novels, what w … more »

Tags: Books, Books, Frank Herbert, Banana Yoshimoto, Salman Rushdie, Patricia Highsmith

"Will I use this in my later life?"

helpertouch wrote 2 months ago: We are using grids a la Brunelleschi to do self portraits. I took a nice three-quarters photo of ea … more »

Tags: Cathy, Courtesy, Shakespeare, Mozart, Brunelleschi, Frank Lloyd Wright, Future, Drawing, grid drawings

Purity of Prose is to Write One Thing10 comments

shoreacres wrote 2 months ago:     Readers who follow my postings know my habit of keeping a series of “snippets” a … more »

Tags: writing, Books, Thoughts, Blogging, Ideas!, Philosophy, Kierkegaard, Editing, Muse

Learning to Live by Grace *Updated*2 comments

dangoldfinch wrote 2 months ago: Friends, Here are some thoughts on grace. I just cannot believe, at times, how abundant God’s … more »

Tags: Grace, guilt, Sin, Grace, Forgiveness, Colossians, The Shack, Philip Yancey, Justification

The Maytrees - Annie Dillard3 comments

chapterten wrote 2 months ago: Not so much a novel as filtered writing on a life, two lives. Bits and pieces of knowledge that floa … more »

Tags: Books, Reading List, Books, Fiction, Novel, The Maytrees

Found poetry4 comments

eastofmina wrote 2 months ago: I opened a journal sometime in the last year pondering my use of quotations as markers in my life: I … more »

Tags: Literary, Poetry, TS Eliot, Marianne Moore, found poetry

Around town

chapterten wrote 2 months ago: This is a picture from last summer of the Farmer’s Market in Arroyo Grande. I went this morni … more »

Tags: Sustainable living, Food, Personal, Farmer's Market, Creativity

On The Daily Grind,reading Annie Dillard & moments of "huh"2 comments

flawedservant wrote 2 months ago: I went to work this morning at four thirty in the morning, life as usual M-F. After I complete the f … more »

Tags: personal exp., Reading, huh?, Daily Grind


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