Holes & Lumps

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

-Auguste Rodin 

Eighty-Nine Years of Song

 Even in the mud and scum of things, 
something always, always sings. 

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Notes on Irrigation

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it.
It enriches the necessary competencies
that daily life requires and provides;
and in this respect,
it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

- C.S. Lewis

If There Were Only Joy

We could never learn to be brave and patient, 
if there were only joy in the world.

-Helen Keller