About a week ago, I finished reading Watership Down by Richard Adams. We were returning home from the airport yesterday (Brian’s grandpa passed away, and so we flew to Michigan and back in 3 days. Funerals can be such a beautiful yet chaotic time of reconnecting with family you haven’t seen in years. It was good to be there…finding cosmos in the midst of the chaos.)
Anyway…when we were passing the lake near our house, I saw quite a few ducks biting at the green grass near the edge of the lake. I immediately thought, “I bet they’re silflaying!” Then I realized that that word actually was created for a book about rabbits, Watership Down. Perhaps it’s a universal word used by all the animals, though, eh?
Don’t you love how good books knit themselves into your life?
I must add…if you have not read Watership Down, you really should. This book was so stirring. I laughed out loud, and I also cried. I was so impacted by the rabbits’ sense of community. They served each other. They cleaned each other’s wounds. They healed together. They learned from story. They worked together, for if they did not, their warren would not survive. They would not survive.
I don’t want to say too much in case…like me…you’ve never heard of or experienced this book.
If you decide to read this book…you won’t be sorry! (And please do let me know!!)
Oh, yes I do love how ‘good books knit their way into our lives’. I think you’ve summed up there the difference between a good book and an ‘okay’ one. I must put Watership Down on our winter reading list!
not sure if it would be too intense for your younger 2, but i bet your older boys would enjoy it! i will probably wait a year or 2 to read it to my girls.