Unlimited Read and Download One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder - Unlimed acces book

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River of Song: Notes on Wonder - Unlimed acces
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A playful, deeply moving book of spiritual essays-for the spiritual and non-spiritual
alike-that excavate the rich seams of examined life and point to the miracles that
surround us. When Brian Doyle died of brain cancer at the age of sixty, he left behind
dozens of books -- fiction and nonfiction, as well as hundreds of essays -- and a cultlike
following who regarded his writing on spirituality as one of the best-kept secrets
of the 21st century. Though Doyle occasionally wrote about Catholic spirituality, his
writing is more broadly about the religion of everyday things. He writes with a
delightful sense of wonder about the holiness of small things, and about love in all its
forms: spiritual love, brotherly love, romantic love, friendly love, love of nature, and
even the love of a nine-foot sturgeon. At a time when our world feels darker than
ever, Doyle's essays are a balm for the tired soul. He finds beauty in the quotidian:
the awe of a child the first time she hears a river, the whiskers a grieving widow
misses seeing in her sink every day -- but through his eyes, nothing is ordinary.
David James Duncan sums up Doyle's sensibilities best in his introduction to the
collection: Brian Doyle lived the pleasure of bearing daily witness to the glories hidden
in people, places and creatures of little or no size or renown, and brought inimitably
playful or soaring or aching or heartfelt language to his tellings. In a time when
wonder seems to be in short supply, One Long River of Song, Doyle and Duncan
invite readers to experience it in the most ordinary of moments, and allow themselves
joy in the smallest of things.