3CS Book Club CDA discussion

Greetings fellow readers, I hope you are all finding a cozy spot to read our February book, The Salt Path

there are so many wonderful quotes, thoughts, introspection in this book. I'm just going to write a few here. "Had I seen enough things? when I could no longer see the, would I remember them, and would just the memory be enough to fill me up and make me whole? ... could anyone ever have enough memories?" "most people go through their whole lives without answering their own questions: what am I, what do I have within me? The big stuff. What a waste."

I was moved when she finally accepted the lack of material possessions. Again she felt at one with Nature. She remembers so vividly a time when her ewe lambed and she was outside lying in the grass looking at the sky and feeling whole.

Our group addressed the situation of homelessness with varied responses. Some felt compassion for the plight of the couple who had no landing place, and kept walking with seemingly no other recourse. Others stated it is survival of the fittest at play. Interesting to note, the characters in the memoir finally gained traction when a stranger took a chance and offered them a rental.