My sure-fire way to accomplish little: Try to do do everything. (time-tested and enduring)
Author Archive | John Otterbacher
ASPIRATIONS
I follow my high-minded words around like a supplicant, rarely catching up. When I do, they only smirk.
GRATITUDE
“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was ‘thank you’, that would be enough.” -Meister Eckharts
DEMOCRACY
“Democracy is the worst form of government there is, except all the others.” -Winston Churchill
DISHONESTY
A particularly disturbing form of intellectual dishonesty is to pretend that I do not know what I actually know because of what it asks of me.
HALLOWEEN
Halloween in the Michigan woods.
SOMEBODY
“I always wanted to be somebody. I see now I should have been more specific.” -Lily Tomlin
FRESH EYES
“We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploration Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time” TS Eliot
ATTENTION
“Let us disappear into praising. Nothing belongs to us.” Rilke
SILENCE
Spent a sunny afternoon with Thomas Merton at his hermitage in the Kentucky woods. He let silence do the talking.