Tag: words
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August 26, 2020
On a recent trip to a friend’s cabin up north, I went out in the early morning and saw this spider web. I bent down to examine it more closely and realized that I was looking for words—words like “some pig” or “radiant” or “terrific.” Good books change how we see the world. E.B. White’s…
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December 17, 2019
To the lovely human being who handed me this note during a signing at Next Chapter Bookstore, and then walked away: thank you. I wanted you to know that your words matter to me. I hung them on the Christmas tree. I’m honored if you found hope in my stories. Hope is what stories have…
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August 20, 2019
When I count my gratitudes, I almost always begin with two words: friends, dogs. Here, then, is a photo of those two things from last weekend at the cabin. The list continues: Loons Moon Eagles Scrabble Minnows Coffee Books Sun Breakfast Stars Love Cicadas Wonder Joy Friends (again) Dogs (again) Reactions: Carol Klapste and 2.4K…
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May 2, 2019
Last week, I was taking care of a friend’s old dog. Walks are a different thing entirely when you’re with an old dog. You think that you’re looking at the world, seeing it. But then you take a walk with an old dog and you realize that you had been rushing past it all. “Here.…
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January 22, 2019
These words are for my mother, Betty DiCamillo, who died ten years ago this month. She laughed often. She loved dogs. She read to me. She read to me. She read to me. Reactions: 2.3K Comments: 79 Original Post
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January 11, 2018
Speaking of the desk—I went looking the other day for these words, the words that I had taped to my first (very rickety) writing desk. This quote still moves and motivates me, particularly the bits about the ready ear, and the open eye. Let me listen. Let me see. Let me take nothing for granted.…