Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.
-Auguste Rodin
The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched. Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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Monday, September 28, 2015
Monday, September 21, 2015
Eighty-Nine Years of Song
Even in the mud and scum of things,
something always, always sings.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
something always, always sings.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Monday, September 14, 2015
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
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
Monday, September 7, 2015
If There Were Only Joy
We could never learn to be brave and patient,
if there were only joy in the world.
-Helen Keller