Image‘s Gregory Wolfe, with a little help from Annie Dillard, starts Monday morning off right, asking, “Is the end near?” I feel a responsibility to alert you whenever my favorite Annie Dillard book, For the Time Being, is quoted online. Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Related Reader!!!! Mail!!!!Unbearable "Noise"; CGI vs. Ye Olde Fashioned Way
::clunk:: the sound of a two-by-four smacking me between the eyes in the form of Annie Dilliard’s words-ones that I need to take to heart.
I subscribe to the Image blog, but haven’t read it for several days, so thanks for pointing this particular post out.
I think. 🙂
Today a guy on the local talk radio station was commenting on recent news of tornadoes, earthquakes, and cyclones. He said that as soon as he heard of a plague of locusts, he would be heading for church.
I think middle-aged and older people are becoming more generally pessimistic than they have been in the recent past. They’ve known better times.