High
Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never by Barbara Kingsolver
This has been on my shelf for more years than I care
to say. It was published in 1995. I return to it again and again because of the
beauty of the language and the vision into the life of a writer traveling the
world. And yet one of the most tender stories tells about my two favorite subjects
– motorcycles and librarians. Set in her
high school in Kentucky, Kingsolver tells of her intellectual and moral coming
of age reading the books of the library in “How Mr. Dewey Decimal Saved My
Life.” So, my final book ends with the injunction to the reader. “Here today,
gone tomorrow. It’s the best reason I can think of to throw open the blinds and
risk belief. Right now, this minute, time to move out into the grief and glory.”
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