Alright, so I am sure that some of you may be getting annoyed at all my talk about LOTR (especially Sierra), so before you just skip right over the post, just know that this is not about LOTR! Yes, Tolkien wrote LOTR, but he wrote much more besides.
And one of his other works is the topic of this blog post.
The work in question is a short story titled "Leaf by Niggle". Okay, yes, the title seems pretty silly, but the content is incredible! I was doing my ab exercises yesterday evening when I picked it up to read while doing "the plank" exercise. I finished "the plank"...but kept reading the story. I finished it pretty quickly (it is very short), but I could not stop thinking about it for the rest of the day--and I am still pondering it today. It is an extremely allegorical work that made me reconsider the way I live and for what I live. I don't like spoiling stories for other people, so all I will say is: read it! You just might find that it will give you a different perspective on life...
In other news--
I made some more Amish Bread! It is delicious--about one thousand times more delicious than the last time, due to my tweaks in the recipe. I love playing with recipes, so I almost invariably alter whatever recipes I work with so as to cater to my personal tastes. I will (probably) post the perfected recipe by the end of the summer. So get ready--it's amazing.
{evie}
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