OVEREXTENSION
My sure-fire way to accomplish little: Try to do do everything. (time-tested and enduring)
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.
SOMEBODY
“I always wanted to be somebody. I see now I should have been more specific.” -Lily Tomlin
SILENCE
Spent a sunny afternoon with Thomas Merton at his hermitage in the Kentucky woods. He let silence do the talking.
STILLNESS
In stillness a world emerges to which the only response is love.
WATER
“If I were called in to construct a religion, I would make use of water.” Philip Larkin
EXPLORATION
“Old men ought to be explorers….still and still moving, into another intensity.” T.S.Elliot
NEW HAMPSHIRE
”Instructions for living. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.” -Mary Oliver
VERMONT
Reaching for the light at dusk.