Nina Berry on Substack

As she smiled her delight at hearing such agreement with her own thoughts, I handed her the drawing.

My God just is.

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”

— Simone Weil

But I do. The idea of God is much on my mind these days. I’ve been paying attention to what other people believe—whether they believe, and if so what kind of God they believe in.

How it felt to me: that is getting closer to the truth about a note­ book. I sometimes delude myself about why I keep a notebook, imagine that some thrifty virtue derives from preserving everything observed. See enough and write it down, I tell myself, and then some morning when the world seems drained of wonder, some day when I am only going throu