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. 

Jealous of her daughter’s love, the old woman strangles and skins her, stretching her daughter’s face upon …