"It seems, in youth, that everything we do is practice for the real thing, a rehearsal for some future grand debut. And then the years go by, and we look back and realize that the practice was the real thing, the rehearsal the grand debut."
~~ from my book A Few For The Road
Questions For The Home Commute
"Did I make some complicated thing simple today, or did I make some simple thing complicated?"
"Was it wise to spend another day trying to accomplish Thing B as a means of accomplishing Thing A?"
"What are the things in my life I most cherish, and what did I do today to cherish them?"
~~ from my book A Few For The Road
"You learn this -- that no situation in life that tests your patience is going to test just some of it."
I had this dream. It was my memorial service, and a friend said, "He was a person of good intention and sincere regret unfairly judged by his actions," and I'm thinking, "Yes!"
"One of the great frustrations of knowing history is having those who do not know history drag you back into it."
There's nothing like someone saying, "You're smarter than that" to make you wonder what other unfounded rumors might be circulating about you.
No matter how varied and complex our daily responsibilities, at the end of the day Mother Nature has just one question for us: "What life did you nurture today?"
