by Andi | Dec 10, 2014 | Book Recommendations, Written and Wrought
I’ve been trying to give myself a gift this week – a little reading during the early part of the day. After I finish the most urgent things – my own writing, responses to pressing emails, checking in on Facebook updates – I step back and read... by Andi | Dec 9, 2014 | Book Recommendations, Music Reviews, Written and Wrought
Lately, my days are filled with all the things I find most beautiful, most bracing, most filling. Over the Rhine’s song “Let It Fall” is on repeat most days for me. Have you been caring too much how this one ends? You know it’s not the kind of... by Andi | Dec 8, 2014 | Book Recommendations, Written and Wrought
You’ll forgive me, I hope, for a short post today. You see, I’m rapt in the final pages of Marilynne Robinson’s Lila, and I’m finding it hard to pull away. Right now, the book has left me rent – 9 pages to go – with the beauty that... by Andi | Dec 7, 2014 | Barn
I’m sitting in the reading room now, the Christmas tree lights on, the stove pinging, a clock ticking. This quiet rest has been a few weeks coming now. We’ve been pretty quiet about this blog and on our Facebook page of late. . . farming, work, living . .... by Andi | Dec 7, 2014 | Book Recommendations
Yesterday, as I drove back and from at local Coming to the Table, I finished listening to The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness. I had whizzed through A Discovery of Witches, and I read – but didn’t much care for – Shadow of Night. So I was eager to...