Enjoyed a fun gathering at Denise's home.  So nice to see everyone who was able to make it.  Always pleasant and relaxing.

Our Book this month was "Last Bus to Wisdom", the last book Ivan Doig wrote before he passed away.  It is a tale about the summer adventures of a young boy, riding the Greyhound bus from Montana to Wisconsin and back.  Wonderful descriptions of the boys' travels; imagine what you might think, after growing up on a Montana ranch, seeing a large metropolis for the first time!  Young Donal also had a healthy imagination - "It's funny about imagination, how it can add to your peril even while it momentarily comes to your rescue."  This book was packed with great quotable sentences: "...wizen must have had something to do with wisdom", "On the road somewhere south of the moon and north of Hell" and "Still waters can bust dams."    A fun read inviting you in and taking you along on this big summer adventure.  Beautifully written descriptions which place you there amongst the characters: "What a haze of thoughts came over me like that as memory when back and forth, dipping and accelerating like a speedometer keeping up with a hilly road."  "You got some big miles to go...but that's the story of life, isn't it.  Keeping on across the unknowable distances..."  As written in Donal's autograph book:

    "When you take a look in your memory book

      Here you will find the lasting kind,

      Old rhymes and new, life in review,

      Roses in the snow of long ago."