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Norris reveals the contradictions of small town life on the Great Plains, where gracious hospitality blends with provincial wariness, local history is valued by writers, and truth and myth collide.
A lovely meditation on life on the plains, and on the prairie's special way of awakening and activating faith (I had the same experience fwiw.) I can't say i understand why Norris chose to stay in Lemmon, she seems more ill-suited to the region than I was, and I was in the "big city" of Fargo -- I made it two years. Still she tells a tale, provides context and introduces a way of approaching life that is compelling, and led me to rethink my approach to some things. A worthwhile read for those if us who prefer guided reflection to self-help. ( )
I found the poetry in this collection much more powerful than the essays. While Kathleen Norris is articulate, especially about her faith and conceptions of Christianity, I found most essays spun off into rabbit trails, side stories and were not cohesive. There was also a fair amount of repetition, especially about the monastic lifestyle, Benedictine tradition and an endless supply of anecdotes about her choice to move from New York to Dakota. Norris captures the spirit of the Plains when she lets herself express the natural world in her poetry, I wish there would have been a bit more of these and a bit less reflection and reportage. ( )
“A deeply spiritual, deeply moving book” about life on the Great Plains, by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Cloister Walk (The New York Times Book Review). .
This is Norris' first major book. Though a poet, she began to keep a kind of journal after she and her husband left New York City in order to take over a farm in Lemmon, South Dakota, left to her in an inheritance. Once there, her entire life began to change. Once a non-believer, she began to see the issue differently.
This book details her gradual awakening to the meaning of faith, and growing appreciation for the desolation of the plains. As she writes: "Like those monks [of the 4th century], I made a counter-cultural choice to live in what the rest of the world considers a barren waste. Like them I had to stay in this...
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"I think that if we examine our lives, we will find that most good has come to us from the few loyalties, and a few discoveries made many generations before we were born, which must always be made anew.There too may sometimes appear to come by chance, but in the infinite web of things and events chance must be something different from what we think it to be. To comprehend that is not given to us, and to think of it is to recognize a mystery, and to acknowledge the necessity of faith. As I look back on the part of the mystery which is my own life, my own fable, what I am most aware of is that we receive more than we can ever give; we receive it from the past, on which we draw with every breath . . ." --Edwin Muir, An Autobiography
"Tell me the landscape in which you live, and I will tell you who you are." --José Ortega y Gassett
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In memory of Kathleen Dakota and Mary Beatrice
Incipit
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The High Plains, the beginning of the desert West, often act as a crucible for those who inhabit them.
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When these people ask, "Who will replace us?"the answer is, "who knows, maybe no one," and it's not easy to live with that truth...The challenge is to go on living graciously and thankfully, cultivating love. (p.174)
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One of the old ones was asked, "What is it necessary for the monk to be?" And he said, "According to me, alone with the Alone."
Norris reveals the contradictions of small town life on the Great Plains, where gracious hospitality blends with provincial wariness, local history is valued by writers, and truth and myth collide.
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