A review by palomahelen
The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New by Annie Dillard

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective relaxing medium-paced

4.75

"we must find a workable compromise between the sublimity of our ideas and absurdity of the fact of us"

(and also) 

"beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. the least we can do is try to be there"