Exaltation

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"For a year or two I had been looking at trees, fields, landscape with a secret, strong exaltation. In some moods, some days, I could feel for a clump of grass, a rail fence, a stone pile, such pure unbounded emotion as I used to hope for, and have inklings of, in connection with God."


-- From Lives of Girls and Women
by Alice Munro

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  1. woodbirdJune 10, 2011 at 5:52 AM

    Oh how I love that book. Which makes me think...maybe it's time I pick it up again.

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