The Web of Life: Weaving the Values that Sustain Us by award-winning journalist and author (Childhood's Future) Richard Louv is a salutary and healing book about the spiritual dimensions of family, friendship, community, nature, time, and spirit. Louv uses personal vignettes and portraits of interesting people to convey the meanings inherent in the web of life that sustains us all. Whether writing about a fishing excursion with his brother, a dog as a moral teacher, the installation of a bench on his front yard, or the Christmas ritual of writing love letters to other family members instead of giving gifts, he re-enchants the everyday with a simple but graceful elegance.
This writer has a knack for finding the values residing in little things and then eloquently weaving all the bits and pieces into a whole fabric. The Web of Life is a lyrical and lovely read.