Tag: Good books

Finished A Widow for One Year. It was alright. Now I picked up two books that I bought at Flannery O’Connor’s house in Savannah, GA several years ago. It must have been just her childhood home because it was right in town, one could see the Catholic church from at least one of the upstairs windows, I remember. The house in Wildcat was on a farm. Anyway, the books I’m reading are The Life You Save May Be Your Own by Paul Elie and The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O’Connor. So far I LOVE the second. A welfare worker had to go through snaggly backwoods to try and check on this kidnapped baby. It sort of reminded me of my lovely livelihood. I have great pity and fondness for social workers, bureaucrats, and civil servants of low order. Kafka, Whitman, Bukowski. Maybe they would have been poets/writers that I could actually handle, I don’t know. Of course, Whitman is practically in my family tree with Dr. O.K. Sammis being his childhood friend. Jeannie Olivia Berry Sammis was somebody. My grandmother’s grandma was Kate Sammis. Kate Sammis was one of Dr OK’s many daughters. And Dr OK was Whitman’s friend. Look it up online if ya don’t believe me.