There’s this paragraph in 100 Years that… I find it hard properly expressing the hold that it has on me. And no, it isn’t because it’s the best in the book.

Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her. Petra Cotes, for her part, loved him more and more as she felt his love increasing, and that was how in the ripeness of autumn she began to believe once more in the youthful superstition that poverty was the servitude of love. Both looked back then on the wild revelry, the gaudy wealth, and the unbridled fornication as an annoyance and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to fund the paradise of shared solitude. Madly in love after so many years of sterile complicity, they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out old people they kept on blooming like little children and playing together like dogs.

Cupid and Psyche

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Thomas Browne:

“the Devill playd at Chesse with mee, and yeelding a pawne, thought to gaine a Queen of me, taking advantage of my honest endeavours; and whilst I labour’d to raise the structure of my reason, hee striv’d to undermine the edifice of my faith.”

My Sep ‘26 reading list

Gray’s Anatomy or Grey’s Anatomy?

Finished reading: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott 📚

Annie Dillard’s humor is just something else. I have really loved this one.

Anne Lammott:

… families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness.At some point you pardon the people in your family for being stuck together in their weirdness, and when you can do that, you can learn to pardon anyone. Even yourself, eventually.