life lately

because i haven't been around these blogging parts lately, here are some pictures of the recent past. my life is basically consumed by taking care of the pup. that, and i just need to take more pictures to document the things i'm doing with my life.

christmas do

 

step one       -     make sugar cookies

step two       -     decorate them

step three     -     eat them

currently reading

she is also the author of this book, which i very much enjoyed

Ha - Why live?

My favorite from this article, an interview with M.H. Abrams (founding editor) and Stephen Greenblatt (general editor) of the Norton Anthology:

For a prospective undergraduate reading this Q. and A., how would you answer the question, Why study literature?

 

Abrams: Ha — Why live? Life without literature is a life reduced to penury. It expands you in every way. It illuminates what you’re doing. It shows you possibilities you haven’t thought of. It enables you to live the lives of other people than yourself. It broadens you, it makes you more human. It makes life enjoyable. There’s no end to the response you can make to that question, but Stephen has a few things to add. 

 

Greenblatt: Literature is the most astonishing technological means that humans have created, and now practiced for thousands of years, to capture experience. For me the thrill of literature involves entering into the life worlds of others. I’m from a particular, constricted place in time, and I suddenly am part of a huge world — other times, other places, other inner lives that I otherwise would have no access to. 

christmas in dixie

No snow in these parts. 

It feels like Spring outside. 

And it is oh, so lovely.