gracious life

“We traveled together and ate together and sat around hotel rooms and talked at night. We were a smaller group, and invariably more closely knit. It seems to me like we used to have a more gracious life playing tournaments in those days. In many places we dressed for dinner, in dinner jackets. I cringe when I see fellas today walking into nice restaurants in golf clothes.”

Don’t you imagine that if, God forbid, everything in your life fell apart and you ended up broke living in a trailer park somewhere in the mountains, that at least your trailer would be filled with books and art and a couple of treasured pieces of furniture from your past, somewhat more gracious life?

She hated being out in what she called the Sticks, longed for the great and gracious life in Toledo or South Bend.

“This is the nest where secesh was hatched,” the army shouted, and the proud possessions of a gracious life, the little homes of the poor, the cities, farms, and the frightened, desperate people were swept down before the fury of the Army of the Tennessee.

A charming book, simply and gracefully recording the events of a simple and gracious life.