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Live Like a Weasel, Ring Like a Bell - Jay Stringer

11/10/2026
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Jay Stringer - Live Like a Weasel, Ring Like a Bell

episode 58

Pulitzer Prize winning American author Annie Dillard (1945-2026)

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974) 1975 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction

"I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck." p. 36 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Teaching a Stone to Talk (1982)

"Living Like Weasels" essay https://nowcomment.com/documents/248767

"Total Eclipse" essay https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/annie-dillards-total-eclipse/536148/

Desire by Jay Stringer (2026)

Unwanted by Jay Stringer (2018)

Smithsonian Institution https://www.si.edu/explore/science

Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

"The limits of my language are the limits of my world", written by Austrian-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein in 1921.

"A two-person system is unstable because it tolerates little tension before involving a third person." American psychiatrist and a professor Murray Bowen on "triangulation".

IG: @jay_stringer_

https://jay-stringer.com/about/

https://theallendercenter.org/about/team/jay-stringer/

Living Poetry podcast: A Healing Hum with Heather Stringer  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/living-poetry/id1766768565?i=1000733833032

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