Kate Shuknecht and Meghan Maloney-Vinz of Broadcraft Press delivered books 210-310 the day after Thanksgiving, and now Micawber's Books, Drury Lane Books in Grand Marais and Common Good Books are re-stocked! I celebrate this mostly because this seems to indicate that something good is happening between little ol' Superior Life and the person who picks it up off the shelf. Of course, I gotta believe I know what it is--the common adoration of the natural wilds of Lake Superior and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area--we can't get enough of it and attempt to take it home with us, in any way we can, even a book of poems and sketches from Jean Miriam Larson's journal, reproduced therein. Mysterious and magical--for instance, this photo at the left, eating lunch in the rain at the portage between Brule Lake and South Temperance Lake. I was miserable, honestly. And then I put on sensible clothes, thanks to my children, found the rhythm of the woods, and remembered that paddling hard keeps you warm. That night in our tent playing Hearts, we were all astonished that we found ourselves to be blissfully happy despite a wet and windy day and night with temps dipping down toward freezing in late July.
The Superior Life begins and ends with thoughts about the essential desire for simplicity: "I wish for nothing more than this cobble beach, this sun..." and "I do not wish for more than sun's time..." Honestly, I just realized that the book ends just as it begins!--it looks like a plan, but it wasn't! It's the innate longing for simplicity, primal within me--and within most of us, I'd dare guess.
The Superior Life begins and ends with thoughts about the essential desire for simplicity: "I wish for nothing more than this cobble beach, this sun..." and "I do not wish for more than sun's time..." Honestly, I just realized that the book ends just as it begins!--it looks like a plan, but it wasn't! It's the innate longing for simplicity, primal within me--and within most of us, I'd dare guess.
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