Includes essays exploring the experience of the sublime in everyday life.

Over the course of a decade at century's end, Richard Quinney recorded in his journal the events of daily living. Any sense of the universal and the extraordinary was necessarily grounded in ordinary experience. He lived in a prairie town in northern Illinois, within easy driving distance of his family farm in Walworth County, Wisconsin, as he made the observations and wrote the personal essays that make up this book. Experiencing the sublime in everyday life is in the long tradition of the romantic poets, transcendental writers, landscape painters, and all who remain close to the natural world.