The MarginalianAnnie Dillard on Unselfconsciousness
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/07/annie-dillard-muskrat/
What a Weasel Knows That We Forget: Annie Dillard on How to Live
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/04/annie-dillard-weasel/
How We Spend Our Days Is How We Spend Our Lives: Annie Dillard on Choosing Presence Over Productivity
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/02/01/annie-dillard-the-writing-life-1/
Wisdom in SpaceI read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? "No," said the priest, "not if you did not know." "Then why," asked the Eskimo earnestly, "did you tell me?"
-- Annie Dillard
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Annie Dillard on How to Live
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2025/10/14/annie-dillard-weasel/
Her DoingDear Lovely Peeps,
'We are here to abet creation and to witness it, to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed.
Together we notice not only each mountain shadow and each stone on the beach but we notice each other's beautiful face & complex nature so that creation need not play to an empty house.' - Annie Dillard
I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? "No," said the priest, "not if you did not know." "Then why," asked the Eskimo earnestly, "did you tell me?"
-- Annie Dillard
katrintheresaGrumpy for 5 reasons— none worth telling because true suffering is happening in the world and my woes are not worth a dime. And I like dimes!! So here are some pics I took on a trip to Phipps Conservatory last week! #flowers #spring #AnnieDillard #photos #photography
RevDrMatthewFox#AnnieDillard: “#Nature is, above all, profligate." That leaves return to the soil is "a radical scheme, the brainchild of a deranged manic-depressive w/ limitless capital"..."[Nature] is a spendthrift #economy: though nothing is lost, all is spent." #Generosity #GiftsOfWisdom https://bit.ly/4gEzuHv
Universe Lessons: Extravagance, Generosity & Expansion - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
In yesterday’s DM, I called for taking lessons from the universe itself to strengthen our souls for the challenges we face as citizens and as guests on this special but endangered planet. Let us consider some of these lessons which in my book, Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the Peoples of the Earth, I call “Gifts of […]