I want to lay up like that, to float
unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I
want to inhabit my life like a porch.
—Rebecca Wells
Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter
I want to lay up like that, to float
unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I
want to inhabit my life like a porch.
—Rebecca Wells
Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter
“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.”
― Jimmy Carter, The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture
Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter
“These southerners know the names of what shrubs hang over what creek, what dogwood flowers bloom what color, what kind of soil is under their feet.”
—Natalia Goldberg
Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter
“The arc of the moral universe is
long, but it bends toward justice.”
— Dr. Martin Lither King, Jr.
Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter
“No one is without Christianity if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.”
— William Faulkner
Photo: Grounds of Rowan Oak, Deborah Fagan Carpenter
A southerner doesn’t truly understand cold.
Though Anne was born in Alabama and schooled in Mississippi, she had traveled North, and, like many Southerners, gained a theoretical understanding of the concept of cold. But the mind is an overprotective parent. What it doesn’t care for, it hides. Like many inhabiting the subtropics, Anne had repressed the reality of subzero mercury.
—Thomas Wolfe
(Thanks to Kim for the beautiful photo of my frigid yard)
“…and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven.”
—James Lee Burke
Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter
Art: Deborah Fagan Carpenter
“Christmas in the South means a creamy bowl of rum and bourbon-based eggnog and a rich array of cakes and candies: coconut cake, white fruitcake, bourbon ball candies, and sugary divinity candies topped with pecans.”
—Eugene Walter,
writing in “American Cooking, Southern Style”
Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter