Are you reading Wearing God? Goodness, it’s excellent. Lauren Winner explores different ways to think about God – laughter, food, clothes, a mother. I want to go back to the narrator in her book Still and tell her, “Just wait. You’ll find Him again. And you’ll see He was always there, perhaps just in a different metaphor that you couldn’t see.” But she sees Him now, and she’s sharing Him with us.
What fun it is to try something just because you want to. This is probably why I don’t like advice. Or why, when someone asks me for an elevator pitch regarding this blog, I have none. I have no clue what it is I’m doing. I have no clue what this blog is about. The things I do don’t make sense to me. That’s probably why I do them.
One last book with the 8th graders before summer. This one is about a kid’s Freshman year of high school. I hope they love it. I hope it helps them move into high school. I hope that when they read it they’ll see themselves in part of the story. I hope they’ll see a part of their identity in the book and say, “Yup, that’s me. But it’s not ALL of me. There’s more coming.”
“Who wasn’t afraid to step away from her chosen identity” – what a lovely line and thought! I’m going to need to read this.
I adore reading your week in words – it captures so well the little moments that make up a life. 🙂
I love this book, Abbie. I hope the students do, too. I would love to know what you think of it.
Once again, you put it so well: “I have no clue what it is I’m doing. I have no clue what this blog is about. The things I do don’t make sense to me. That’s probably why I do them”
Am using the Wendell Berry quote (from the poem Mad Farmer’s Liberation Front) in my current class. Made me happy to see it here. I wish I could learn more to trust what doesn’t compute, in my writing and elsewhere.
Thanks, Lindsey. Thanks for sharing that wonderful quote, too. It’s my new favorite.