Quote of the day

[hummingwolf]

...I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too. I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead am wandering awed about on a splintered wreck I've come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air, whose bloodied and scarred creatures are my dearest companions, and whose beauty beats and shines not in its imperfections but overwhlemingly in spite of them, under the wind-rent clouds, upstream and down. Simone Weil says simply, 'Let us love the country of here below. It is real; it offers resistance to love.'

--Annie Dillard

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[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Heh, I've never even tried reading a book by her. Maybe the next time I get to the library I'll see what they have of hers, if anything. I feel in love with this quote when I ran across it online while I was looking for something else.