Mid-morning though to you it seems like
noon. Breakfast, the paper and continual chores since. New plan. Carol drives
to Mary Lou's to spend the night in Westerville. The movers arrive to their
Delaware house at eight tomorrow. Kim will arrive around ten. Meanwhile, you
have to pick up the cat at nine or so and settle her in. As she may be unwell
you may have to stay until Saturday before driving up or if she stays unwell,
you won't go up at all. Everyone will be to your house on Monday in any case.
This then is the plan with contingencies sorted.
0929 hours. Time for a bath as the
bedroom is spruced up. The plumber arrives around noon to fix the sink in the
bathroom.
First time in twenty years you have ever needed a plumber for a sink
other than in the kitchen. Later, dude. - Amorella
1006 hours. About twenty minutes of a
thunderstorm roared through before your bath. You were hoping something new
would pop into your head while in the tub but alas, nothing happened. -
Amorella
As far as creativity goes I am just an
ordinary potted desert plant that waits for a good rain now and then.
Such an existential spirit.
I would hope Mr. Emerson would be
proud of my humbled spirit anyway.
You have it in for Ralph Waldo anyway,
right? - Amorella
He and Kierkegaard are my guides as a
transcendentalist. A quote from each will do here as a reminder.
You ran errands and have returned and found
a few quotes that tickle at your soul first. I find this amusing because you
assume the heart plucked them from the Internet. - Amorella
1226 hours. I had not given it a
thought; however I was searching with my mind not heart or soul.
These simple discrepancies make more of a
difference than the individual human being gives consideration. Inner struggles
could more easily be differentiated if the cause were known. - Amorella
I don't know. That may be. As long as
it is a part of the Merlyn books and blog I don't mind, but I have yet to give
it personal consideration. People don't have the time or inclination to think
in terms of the distances or lack of them between heart and soul and mind. I
inherited Mom's 1940 edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations and read
most of it through the junior high school years. I remember it was interesting
to look for 'wisdom' because I did not feel I could define the word; I don't
know that I can define it even today. Perhaps because it is a 'being' word and
as such has to be understood in context. Who knows? Here are quotations
Amorella says my soul plucked. I see each quote as eyes view through the narrow
focus in an active searchlight. Something can be gleaned from each.
** **
"Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but
your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen
to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are
great, not what you were never made for."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays [goodreads quotes]
***
"Very early, I knew that the only object in life
was to grow."
-- Margaret Fuller [goodreads quote]
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"This whole earth in which we inhabit is but a
point in space."
-- Henry David Thoreau [goodreads quotes]
***
"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense
and plain dealing."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson [goodreads quotes]
***
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it
must be lived forwards."
-- Soren Kierkegaard [searchquotes]
***
"People hardly ever make use of the freedom
the, for example, freedom of thought; instead they demand freedom of speech as
a compensation."
-- Soren Kierkegaard [searchquotes]
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