Love's impossible ask 💗 😮
And the astonishing heart that beats underneath everything our eyes can see
Annie Dillard asks a question about beauty in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek1 that nearly stops my beating heart. She frames the question with an Inuit story told by Farley Mowat about a man, his young wife, and the girl’s mother at the top of the world.Â
Jealous of her daughter’s love, the old woman strangles and skins her, stretching her daughter’s face upon …
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