Truth: that long clean clear simple

undeniable unchallengeable straight

and shining line, on one side of which

black is black and on the other white

is white, has now become an angle, a

point of view.

—William Faulkner

Art: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“These southerners know the names of what shrubs hang over what creek, what dogwood flowers bloom what color, what kind of soil is under their feet.”

—Natalia Goldberg

Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“No one is without Christianity if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.”

— William Faulkner

Photo: Grounds of Rowan Oak, Deborah Fagan Carpenter