Saturday, April 16

               Tomorrow is Palm Sunday and begins the Christian holy week that includes Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday.  I will begin reading William Faulkner’s, A Fable, his Pulitzer Prize winning novel that is set during holy week.  I purchased it at Square Books a few years ago during a family trip to Oxford, Mississippi after having toured his home Rowan Oak.  I pointed out to the kids the outline of the novel he had written on the wall of his study.  Their reactions were varied from, “it’s cool he was allowed to write on his wall”, which I replied, “when you win the Nobel Prize for literature too then you can too”, to “why would he not just put it on a piece of paper”.  The last question the docent explained to us may have been because of the hot Mississippi summers and his having to work with the windows open and may have tired of his papers blowing around.  I think he just wanted the story to become part of his home and physical existence, an organic expression.

Sunday, April 17

               Irises and Hydrangeas are in bloom.