A good journal entry – like a good song, or sketch, or photograph – ought to break up the habitual and lift away the film that forms over the eye, the finger, the tongue, the heart. A good journal entry ought to be a love letter to the world.
—Anthony Doerr, Four Seasons in Rome
As a longtime journaler (I have boxes of old journals stowed away in a closet, and a stack of more recent ones teetering on a bookshelf), this passage from Doerr’s lovely memoir positively made my heart sing.
Happy Friday, friends. Hope you have a lovely weekend.
cakes, tea and dreams 
I expected Four Seasons in Rome to really rock my world–giving a detailed look at his writing process, but I did enjoy the peek into his world and especially remember the pages where he and his wife raced in to be the first people of the day to visit the Sistine Chapel. While Four Seasons left me slightly underwhelmed, All the Light We Cannot See was a beautiful, exquisite read. If that’s what he was working on in Rome, it was well worth it.
I just started Four Seasons in Rome – gorgeous snapshots of their life there. And oh, I loved All The Light We Cannot See.
love this 🙂