That's Us. A Little Highbrow. A Little Mundane.
You know something is from God when it starts good and gets better.
From The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield--there's a great description of a minor character (the doctor's wife) in the book. It goes like this (page 104):
"The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe that God actually did watch everything she did and listen to everything she said, and she was too taken up with rooting out the pride she was prone to feeling in her own holiness to notice any other failings she might have had. She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it."
2 comments:
Hi Stacy - yes, we were stationed in the Azores at Lajes Field for 3 years when I was very young... in fact, that's where my younger brother was born.
:-)
I really want to go back... my memories now (as you might imagine) are very blurry... but I remember how lovely (and WINDY) it was.... one day, I'll return!
My parents have wonderful memories of their time there... they learned to speak the language and can still manage to hold a conversation, although their Portuguese has become rusty from lack of use, of course.
HWHL, that is so neat!! I've been there twice (to Sao Miguel) and it's gorgeous. It's like going to another time as well as place. If you get a hankering for some good Portuguese food, come on up and visit! :)
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