#annie-dillard — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #annie-dillard, aggregated by home.social.
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Annie Dillard on Unselfconsciousness
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/07/annie-dillard-muskrat/
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What a Weasel Knows That We Forget: Annie Dillard on How to Live
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/04/annie-dillard-weasel/
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How We Spend Our Days Is How We Spend Our Lives: Annie Dillard on Choosing Presence Over Productivity
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/02/01/annie-dillard-the-writing-life-1/
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I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? "No," said the priest, "not if you did not know." "Then why," asked the Eskimo earnestly, "did you tell me?"
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Dear Lovely Peeps,
'We are here to abet creation and to witness it, to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed.
Together we notice not only each mountain shadow and each stone on the beach but we notice each other's beautiful face & complex nature so that creation need not play to an empty house.' - Annie Dillard
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I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? "No," said the priest, "not if you did not know." "Then why," asked the Eskimo earnestly, "did you tell me?"
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Grumpy for 5 reasons— none worth telling because true suffering is happening in the world and my woes are not worth a dime. And I like dimes!! So here are some pics I took on a trip to Phipps Conservatory last week! #flowers #spring #AnnieDillard #photos #photography
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Giving
The impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.
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#AnnieDillard #Creativity #InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #Quotes
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Do not hoard ideas
Holding on to a lot of ideas takes a great deal of time and energy. If, like me, you’re a systems person you can make things much worse. I can build personal knowledge systems, slipboxes, databases, custom software and bend all sorts of technology into new shapes. It turns out—as I hope you’ve already guessed—that if you have too many ideas, and then build and deploy a bunch of clever tools and systems, you just end up with even more ideas. (There isn’t quite an XKCD for that, but number 927 is close.)
One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water.
~ Annie Dillard from, Spend it all every time
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Building tools and systems is also a terrific way to hide. It’s a variation of the old idea that I cannot start on the real work until I get all this other stuff organized and cleaned up and set up and just so.
Instead, I’m so much happier if I simply take something that brings me joy, and share it.
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This in my library book. I think the universe is messing with me #AnnieDillard #mosquito
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"What goes on in his brain the rest of the time? What does a weasel think about? He won’t say. His journal is tracks in clay, a spray of feathers, mouse blood and bone: uncollected, unconnected, loose-leaf, and blown." —Annie Dillard
I should probably reread "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" now that I think about it. And, since I have never read "Teaching a Stone to Talk," which this quote is from, I should probably read that too.
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#AnnieDillard Pilgrim at Tinker Creek: #Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a world to compass these things, a world that is a long, brute game, then we bump against another #mystery: the inrush of power and light, the canary that sings on the skull. Unless all ages and races of men have been deluded by the same mass hypnotist (who?), there seems to be such a thing as #beauty, a #grace wholly #gratuitous.
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The 2005 #Smog song "Say Valley Maker" marks many changes in the life of #BillCallahan as he uses the river as the central symbol to demonstrate "everyday transcendence." The song creates new language from natural and supernatural phenomenon as the only way to describe the need for love and connection. The post also looks at "Rock Bottom Riser" along with ample #LarryMcMurtry and #AnnieDillard references. All this and more in the latest Recliner Notes post:
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Tossing Aside the Blindfold
"In the eighteenth century, when educated European tourists visited the Alps, they deliberately blindfolded their eyes to shield themselves from the evidence of the earth’s horrid irregularity. It is hard to say if this was not merely affectation, for today, newborn infants, who have not yet been taught our ideas of beauty, repeatedly
https://alexandersmap.com/2022/12/27/tossing-aside-the-blindfold/
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If your day includes time for quiet reading, this piece by writer and poet Devin Kelly is really beautiful. https://ordinaryplots.substack.com/p/galway-kinnells-the-26th-of-december?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=56151&post_id=92492107&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email #poetry #grief #family #childhood #GalwayKinnell #Christmas #Grandma #father #AnnieDillard #JaneKenyon #MartinBuber
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@albinokid fav authors, in addition to the ones you listed:
#AnnieDillard
#JohnIrving#scifi / #cyberpunk / #fantasy
#WilliamGibson aka @GreatDismal
#NKJemison
#NnediOkorafor aka @nnedi
#HughHowey aka @hughhowey
#Martha Wells
#BeckyChambers