“The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”
Barbara Kingsolver
I think this one is interesting...
The more read it, the more deeply I delve into it. To think that the least one can do is work out what one hopes for. I feel a bit like, here I am, at the age I am, and I'm not sure I have spent too much time thinking about what I hope for.
Or perhaps I have and it's just that the word 'hope' jumps out at me as being a different verb to one I use a lot.
I do however love the way she describes the most that one can do (with whatever that hope or other word is) is live inside it, live under the roof, be really really close to it.
It seems to be an invitation to really live your life, to not wonder what if, or when, or maybe if then, but to live it.
I guess where I ended up is taking some time to really think about what I hope for, and to try and make sure I have it alongside me as I go...
Barbara Kingsolver
I think this one is interesting...
The more read it, the more deeply I delve into it. To think that the least one can do is work out what one hopes for. I feel a bit like, here I am, at the age I am, and I'm not sure I have spent too much time thinking about what I hope for.
Or perhaps I have and it's just that the word 'hope' jumps out at me as being a different verb to one I use a lot.
I do however love the way she describes the most that one can do (with whatever that hope or other word is) is live inside it, live under the roof, be really really close to it.
It seems to be an invitation to really live your life, to not wonder what if, or when, or maybe if then, but to live it.
I guess where I ended up is taking some time to really think about what I hope for, and to try and make sure I have it alongside me as I go...
hmmm... an interesting quote, for me the only book Barbara Kingsolver has written that fulfilled the potential raised in her opening chapter is her brilliant book 'The Poisonwood Bible', the rest are deeply shallow with cardboard cut out characters and unconvincing plots!
ReplyDeleteSo interesting Mo. I loved Poisonwood Bible for sure, but also enjoyed Flight Behaviour because it taught me lots about nature and science (can't recall the narrative more that I learnt things) and also enjoyed Prodigal Summer but have given up on all the rest and couldn't finish them!
DeleteI daresay I liked Kingsolver's non-fiction Animal, Vegetable, Miracle better than any of her fiction ...
DeleteI think you also have that hit and miss feeling with her Liz...I haven't read that non-fiction one; altho I have read of it. Go well.
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