FLV Reading Group
Spring 2012
We don’t live out our vocations in our heads, in theories or
truisms. We live them in context. An important element of our contexts is
location. This semester we’ll take two distinct looks at location – two
authors, two parts of the United States, two types of literature – and consider
its impact on how we understand and respond to our vocations.
February Meetings – Dakota: A
Spiritual Geography by Kathleen Norris
Norris sets the stage for our semester of exploring how
vocation connects to location in her insightful and poetic look at the ways in
which life in South Dakota is shaped by landscape and seasons. This memoir
gives us a view of Norris’ spiritual awakening, a process shaped by the family
countryside to which she returns.
- For February 2nd, please read pp. 1 –
106
- For February 28th, please read pp.
107 – 220
March Meeting – Hannah Coulter by
Wendall Berry
As one Berry reviewer notes, the key question in a Wendall
Berry novel is never Who, What, When, or Why…it is always Where. In this novel, Berry takes us back to Port
William where we learn of the life of twice-widowed Hannah, her journey from a
farming community to the nearby town, and the impact of her deep rural roots on
the lives of herself and her family.
