Escape

"In order to understand the world one has to turn away from it on occasion."

Albert Camus

Too many considerations

"The singing intent dies a slow death. Our most basic fear is intellectualized and called “revision.” This is not watering the seed; it is poisoning the dirt with too many considerations. "

Courtney Martin, On Being

Sing Anyway

"On those days when we feel a little out of tune...remember, it is by divine design that not all the voices in God's choir are the same."

-Elder Holland LDS Conference April 2017

Be Hagrid

"What's comin'
will come
and we'll
meet it
when it does

-Hagrid; Harry Potter; JK Rowling

Living Peace

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."

-Virginia Woolf

The Peace of Wild Things

When despair for the world grows in me 

and I wake in the night at the least sound 

in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, 

I go and lie down where the wood drake 

rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. 

I come into the peace of wild things 

who do not tax their lives with forethought 

of grief. I come into the presence of still water. 

And I feel above me the day-blind stars 

waiting with their light. For a time 

I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

-Wendell Berry