Photograph by Christopher Parsons, 2011
"Crossing to Safety is a love story, not in the sense of titillating dialogue and actions, but in the sense that it explores private lives. No outsider ever knows the interior landscape of a marriage. It is one of the great secrets kept between couples."
-From the Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams to Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
Miss you, CJP.
'No outsider ever knows the interior landscape of a marriage' - so beautiful and so true.
ReplyDeleteyes. simply yes.
ReplyDeletecan't wait to tackle it. I am thankful for the way we have tended to our marriage landscape (even through a few frosts), as it produces better and more mature fruits year after year...
ReplyDeletep.s. love this warm photograph
ReplyDeletei LOVE that book, d. something i picked up - without knowledge of its wonderful content - because it had a gorgeous cover...seems one can, from time to time, stand by that judgement.
ReplyDeletelovely sunny autumn light you have.
Hi, Lucy. Fair or not, I often judge books by their covers, and size. That beautiful light was what we saw during my birthday trip last year. Great memories.
DeleteIn my limited experience, I think that is Stegner's specialty. And ah...the beautiful writing of Terry Tempest Williams...
ReplyDeleteSuch a warm, beautiful photograph.
It's in my queue! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI don't know that book but I want to. Beautiful image.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful. Now I have to read it!
ReplyDeleteSo true! Fantastic image.
ReplyDeleteI'm happy to see so many of you like this image. I do too. I just posted it without crediting Chris. Oops. It was such a clear representation of my memory it felt like it was mine. Now it is updated.
ReplyDeleteFor those of you who plan to read the book, enjoy! I certainly did.
So true and sweet! Terry Tempest Williams is one of my favorite authors. Her prose from When Women Were Birds made me cry, it was so beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI,too,love Chris' photo.I'll have to check out the book. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteI think this was my favourite of his books.... such grace and truth in his prose.
ReplyDeletean excellent book.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate your sharing of Chris' photograph, which captures a similar interior intimacy.
Beautiful light and words.
ReplyDeleteGoing on my list right now. The list is ever growing - I have read more this year than last... but, still it is paltry. It is definitely something I want to do more of next year.
ReplyDeleteDo you ever read YA?
Have you read the fault in our stars by john green? It is quite something.
I don't often read YA, but I do recall liking Francine Prose's Goldengrove several years back. I'll look up John Green.
DeleteSending you good thoughts.
ReplyDeleteHow utterly and completely true...and perhaps that is one of the best parts of marriage...the togetherness that remains through ups and downs...a life of experiences good and bad, yet together...
ReplyDeleteSounds like a read looking forward to
ReplyDeleteI truly love that book - my introduction to Stegner, and it did not disappoint. Hope you are well.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite part of Crossing to Safety (one of my favorite books) was the dinner party. I thought it was such a moving articulation of how humans connect as friends and how parties, especially dinner parties, can be incubators and launching pads for relationships. "A pretty table was part of it, too - flowers, wine in fragile glasses, silver whose weight was a satifaction in the hand. But the heart of it was the two people who had prepared the occasion, apparently just to show their enthusiasm for Sally and me." This line echoes in my head every time I prepare for guests. Thanks for reminding me of it.
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