Shopping for the Bookworm: A Literary Road Trip #1-A Dream of Travel

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”-Augustine of Hippo

I’m going on a road trip in June. I will likely arrive in Savannah with a lap full of granola bar crumbs and a stack of partially read books with sadly torn pages clawing at my ankles. My dreams of writing, in situ, many pages of deft and witty observations of what it means to take to the road on a wild adventure full of whimsy and wisdom, all whilst perfectly coiffed and lipsticked, will already be mouldering in a ditch somewhere in Tennessee.  Perhaps quite literally. One can dream, though, and in these dreams my ideal and obsessively bookish packing lists take several forms. Up first: random shiny things that set the stage for the theme lists to follow.

In order to record fleeting yet worthy impressions:

Small Leather Journal Sketchbook Not all who wander are lost by in blue

Small Leather Journal Sketchbook “Not all who wander are lost” by in blue. $15.00

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Rachel Carson Died Fifty Years Ago Today

Rachel Carson died on 14 April 1964.

Robert Hines and Rachel Carson

Robert Hines and Rachel Carson. Courtesy of United States Fish and Wildlife Service.

“But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.”-Rachel Carson

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“I don’t believe that responsibility in an author ever worked. I don’t believe that any author ever did any good because he was feeling a responsibility. I believe some authors instinctively feel a certain love for the human being, and they will do a lot of good, I hope. And some of the ones don’t, and that’s all.”-Jean Renoir

Jean Renoir Drawing by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1901

Jean Renoir Drawing by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1901