So I offer a few pieces from a stack of notes and clippings for your ordering pleasure:
"The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease" Voltaire
"Life and Life Abundantly Comes Through Expression" in an Arts & Crafts era pamphlet
Human nature loves heartily well-balanced irregularity and longs for it in life, in
character,
and in almost everything
else Calvert Vaux
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience.
We are spiritual beings having a human
experience. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The Arrowhead Mary Oliver
The arrowhead, which I found beside the river,
was glittering and pointed.
I picked it up, and said, “Now, it’s mine.”
I thought of showing it to friends.
I thought of putting it—such an imposing trinket—
in a little box, on my desk.
Halfway home, past the cut fields,
the old ghost stood under the hickories.
“I would rather drink the wind,” he said,
“I would rather eat mud and die
than steal as you steal,
than lie as you lie.”
was glittering and pointed.
I picked it up, and said, “Now, it’s mine.”
I thought of showing it to friends.
I thought of putting it—such an imposing trinket—
in a little box, on my desk.
Halfway home, past the cut fields,
the old ghost stood under the hickories.
“I would rather drink the wind,” he said,
“I would rather eat mud and die
than steal as you steal,
than lie as you lie.”
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