Our next and final book in this year’s theme of Work, Rest, & Play is one of my all-time favorite works of nature writing: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard. You can read either the full book or the abridged edition (with a lovely foreword by Tish Harrison Warren), available in print or as a digital download from The Trinity Forum.

Here’s a short description:

“Dillard’s evocative reflections on the natural world won the Pulitzer Prize in 1975, and her work remains a perennial classic. But more than that, it invites the distracted and disordered to slow down, pay attention, and learn to truly see and meditate upon the glories of the created order—and its Creator.”

We’ll also spend time once more with Faster Than Light: New and Selected Poems by Connecticut’s former Poet Laureate, Marilyn Nelson. I’ve been learning more about one of her subjects, Venture Smith, whose grave is in the Congregational Church cemetery in East Haddam, CT. If anyone would be interested in a little November field trip to visit his gravesite, let me know!

📚 Next Discussion Details

When: Sunday, November 23, 4–6 pm

Where: Church Lounge

What:

🌟 Looking Ahead: Twelfth Night + Epiphany 2025

Calling all Makers and Storytellers!

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