tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7542864908107801091.post8091194652804953775..comments2023-10-01T07:33:21.442-06:00Comments on So many books, so little time: Gratitude Two: Wry humor about pigs.BAKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04381293916773875594noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7542864908107801091.post-20776337572387068432012-11-12T09:25:15.146-07:002012-11-12T09:25:15.146-07:00(Sorry it took me awhile to respond...too lazy to ...(Sorry it took me awhile to respond...too lazy to log in!)<br /><br />To me, this is one of the powers of keeping a journal or a record of the things you write. Not just letting them disappear. There's dad, right there on hte page, and I'm grown up enough to not get uncomfortable with my dad thinking about pigs getting lucky.<br /><br />But the thing I love, love love the most about this is his parenthetical. "(Do you think there is an afterlife for animals?)" and how I've thought about that, and love the James Dickey poem so much ("The Heaven of Animals"). It is consoling to know we thought about the same unanswerable questions.Amy Sorensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04607827000379087741noreply@blogger.com