Merriam Webster out here fighting for its life

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Having a tough writing day. Feeling a bit comforted by the knowledge that, when this novel is finished and I’m reading it a couple years from now, I won’t be able to tell which parts were hard to write and which were easy. The hard days are fleeting; whatever small good I win from them is not.

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When we turn away from sensing our family resemblance in nature, we transform every wonder in the universe from a window into a mirror. We block out the light in the name of celebrating ourselves above all else. (3/3)

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And the problem isn’t that he is wrong. The problem is that he is incurious. He is missing the imaginative perception to understand that the river herself, the river who made the valley, is just like him but bigger and more powerful. She is the divine he craves. (2/3)

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A man comes to the edge of a river valley. He thinks how difficult it would have been for him to carve that same valley with just his two hands, with shovel and pick and his small bundle of days. So, now he knows that God must be like him, but so much bigger and more powerful. (1/3)

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