One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder
By: Brian Doyle
4.62
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
From a "born storyteller" ( Seattle Times ), this playful and moving bestselling book of essays inv…
Want to Read $ 12.99"Every creature on earth has approximately two billion heartbeats to spend in a lifetime. You can spend them slowly, like a tortoise and live to be two hundred years old, or you can spend them fast, like a hummingbird, and live to be two years old."-Brian Doyle, One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder
"So much held in a heart in a lifetime. So much held in a heart in a day, an hour, a moment. We are utterly open with no one, in the end -- not mother and father, not wife or husband, not lover, not child, not friend. We open windows to each but we live alone in the house of the heart. Perhaps we must. Perhaps we could not bear to be so naked, for fear of a constantly harrowed heart. When young we think there will come one person who will savor and sustain us always; when we are older we know this is the dream of a child, that all hearts finally are bruised and scarred, scored and torn, repaired by time and will, patched by force of character, yet fragile and rickety forevermore, no matter how ferocious the defense and how many bricks you bring to the wall. You can brick up your heart as stout and tight and hard and cold and impregnable as you possibly can and down it comes in an instant, felled by a woman's second glance, a child's apple breath, the shatter of glass in the road, the words 'I have something to tell you,' a cat with a broken spine dragging itself into the forest to die, the brush of your mother's papery ancient hand in a thicket of your hair, the memory of your father's voice early in the morning echoing from the kitchen where he is making pancakes for his children."-Brian Doyle, One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder
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6. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
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"I don’t know"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
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8. One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder
By: Brian Doyle
4.62
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
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"Every creature on earth has approximately two billion heartbeats to spend in a lifetime. You can spend them slowly, like a tortoise and live to be two hundred years old, or you can spend them fast, l…"-Brian Doyle, One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder
"So much held in a heart in a lifetime. So much held in a heart in a day, an hour, a moment. We are utterly open with no one, in the end -- not mother and father, not wife or husband, not lover, not c…"-Brian Doyle, One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder
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4.01
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"Our most precious resource now is wonder. What we wonder ignites our imagination, unleashes our empathy, fuels our ferocity."-Amy Irvine, Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
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