What is the most recent book I finished?  Glad you asked.  Willa Cather’s “Death Comes for the Archbishop” (1927); evocative for quiet + vivid  portrait of Southwest Natives’ (particularly Navajo) internal + external landscape.  Within the story’s focus of the lives of two French Catholic priests in the 19th century, she connects words that describe the indescribable – the enigmatic and highly-evolved human psyche of those native to the desert Southwest. 

The takeaway is being reminded of how much I do not know, nor understand, about the humans that preceded us on this continent, and kept it’s story intact.  So, to the library we must go.   To learn, to ponder, to  be uncomfortable with historical facts and present-day reality.   To be a little bit in awe.

Julie

Tags: 19th century, American Women Authors, catholic priests, death comes to the archbishop, desert southwest, human psyche, landscape, natives, Navajo, Santa Fe diocese, vivid portrait, Willa Cather

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