(M99'12) Shiloh, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
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The day Shiloh come, we're having us a big Sunday dinner. Dara Lynn's dipping bread in her glass of cold tea, the way she likes, and Becky pushes her beans up over the edge of her plate in her rush to get 'em down.
Ma gives us her scolding look. "Just once in my life," she says, "I'd like to see a bite of food go direct from the dish into somebody's mouth without a detour of any kind." p1
I remember my grade school English teacher telling us that one of the most important parts of a book is the beginning, that it has to really draw the reader in. This little bit sure did that for me. It has everything in it that is the essence of the book. Really an awesome example of that in the simplest way it could have been, too.
I don't feel good about the lies I tell Dara Lynn or David or his ma. But don't exactly feel bad neither. If what Grandma Preston told me once about heaven and hell is true, and liars go to hell, then I guess that's where I'm headed. But she also told me that only people are allowed in heaven, no animals. And if I was to go to heaven and look down to see Shiloh down below, head on his paws, I'd run away from heaven sure. p64
That's my thinking exactly.
"But there's food for the body and food for the spirit. And Shiloh sure enough feeds our spirit." p125
I loved this line. Anyone who really loves their animals knows that this is the way it is. You'll do anything to keep that "food for the spirit" going between you and your pet. It's so very, very true.
Ma gives us her scolding look. "Just once in my life," she says, "I'd like to see a bite of food go direct from the dish into somebody's mouth without a detour of any kind." p1
I remember my grade school English teacher telling us that one of the most important parts of a book is the beginning, that it has to really draw the reader in. This little bit sure did that for me. It has everything in it that is the essence of the book. Really an awesome example of that in the simplest way it could have been, too.
I don't feel good about the lies I tell Dara Lynn or David or his ma. But don't exactly feel bad neither. If what Grandma Preston told me once about heaven and hell is true, and liars go to hell, then I guess that's where I'm headed. But she also told me that only people are allowed in heaven, no animals. And if I was to go to heaven and look down to see Shiloh down below, head on his paws, I'd run away from heaven sure. p64
That's my thinking exactly.
"But there's food for the body and food for the spirit. And Shiloh sure enough feeds our spirit." p125
I loved this line. Anyone who really loves their animals knows that this is the way it is. You'll do anything to keep that "food for the spirit" going between you and your pet. It's so very, very true.
