Monday ~ May 6, 2019

Two kinds of ideals are always at work in our lives. There are those ideals that are ultimate and in a very real sense always far out beyond anything that can be achieved. Or as one person puts it, they are like far-off lighthouses whose glow is far away in the distance... There are those ideals that seem to be created out of the stubborn realities, in the midst of which we work and live.

Sunday ~ May 5, 2019

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. A life of good days in the senses is not enough. The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage is sweet.

(Annie Dillard, b. 1945)