Sterling Terrell

smart ideas from books (mostly)

  • Home
  • About
    • My CV
    • Books
    • Series
  • Newsletter
  • Advertising
  • Tools

Smitten By The Book

Smitten By The Book

I know I am smitten by the book.

Are you?

My Sunday School teacher even asked how we spend our downtime today.

All I could think of was everyone in the house being asleep most nights, as I sat down with a book.

I learn, I struggle, and I am transported.

Part of me has been at work in days past, and part of me has been on a cattle drive to Montana with Woodrow Call.

Do you know how that feels?

To live a separate life, in a fictional place.

I have seen bullfights with Hemingway, and depravity in the west with Cormac McCarthy.

Parts of Faulkner haunt me.

I hope you find something you love, too.

“I was completely smitten by the book. I longed to read them all, and the things I read of produced new yearnings. Perhaps I might go off to Africa and offer my services to Albert Schweitzer or, decked in my coonskin cap and powder horn, I might defend the people like Davy Crockett. I could scale the Himalayas and live in a cave spinning a prayer wheel, keeping the earth turning. But the urge to express myself was my strongest desire, and my siblings were my first eager co-conspirators in the harvesting of my imagination. They listened attentively to my stories, willingly performed in my plays, and fought valiantly in my wars. With them in my corner, anything seemed possible.”

–Patti Smith, Just Kids

 

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)

Filed Under: PotpourriTagged With: #Learning, #Reading

  • « Previous Page
  • 1
  • …
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Notifications of all new posts by email.

Connect

  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter

Search

Top Posts

  • The Tricky Lily Pad Riddle (You Probably Can't Solve)
    The Tricky Lily Pad Riddle (You Probably Can't Solve)
  • Can You Solve The Bat And Ball Riddle?
    Can You Solve The Bat And Ball Riddle?
  • Hyatt Hill Country Sunday House
    Hyatt Hill Country Sunday House
  • The Applause of Heaven, By: Max Lucado
    The Applause of Heaven, By: Max Lucado
  • Wonder Park Pi Song (Watch It Stick In Your Head)
    Wonder Park Pi Song (Watch It Stick In Your Head)
  • What Is My Purpose?
    What Is My Purpose?
  • Mastermind, By: Maria Konnikova
    Mastermind, By: Maria Konnikova
  • Wagon Train Morality
    Wagon Train Morality
  • This Is How To Draw A Simple Sleigh
    This Is How To Draw A Simple Sleigh
  • Rack Your Weights
    Rack Your Weights

Supporting = Loving

Buy Me a Coffee

Recent Posts

  • Shoe Will Be The Next To Drop
  • Random Thoughts – 383
  • Asymmetric Opportunities To Tilt Luck
  • Where I Sit 26
  • X.com

Copyright © 2023 · Generate Pro On Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in