I had a chest cold or something like it, and now have bronchitis. I've been reading.
"We do not migrate as the birds do, but I notice there is a change in the rhythm of our life when the season ebbs. Nights are cool, days dreamy with blue haze. There is a quickening in the blood, a restlessness. Suddenly, we are full of projects, which may be our own manner of migrating."
- Gladys Taber
"...the one thing that sets creative people apart is that they have all acquired the habit of being receptive to inspiration, actively seeking it, or even simply recognizing it. Some may have to travel to the ends of the earth to find inspiration, others may find it hiding in libraries, at the tops of mountains, buried under the earth. But the domestic artist is in the glorious position of being able to find inspiration in daily, domestic life."
- Jane Brocket, The Gentle Art of Domesticity
"The right kind of warrior takes on his own internal demons before he sails out to take on those of others. He takes his stand, and stands his ground, without giving in to the nihil of the age. He cleaves to what he believes in without falling into the traps laid by partisanship, anger and self-righteousness. Most of all, he works to clear out his own inner junkyard so that he can go searching for truth - and recognise it when he finds it. His war is against the worst of himself and for the best of the world, and what he is fighting for is the love he so often fails at. His most effective weapon is sacrifice."
- Paul Kingsnorth, Against the Machine
Also from Against the Machine: "No one is obliged to take part in the spiritual crisis of a society. On the contrary, everyone is obliged to avoid the folly and live his life in order."
- Eric Voegelin
From Magnificat:
"Our glory is to mirror back in loving praise to the God who made us the beauty we glimpse dimly in all that comes from his hand."
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