rudimentary light
from a day of rudimentary house cleaning
comes a bit of basic light
on the side of my Chai Indian Spice Tea box...
"When is a Person Educated?"
"When they can look out upon the universe,
now lucid and lovely,
now dark and terrible,
with a sense of their own littleness in the great scheme of things,
and yet have large faith and vast courage.
When they know how to make friends and keep them,
and, above all, when they can keep friends with themselves.
When they can be happy alone and high-minded amid the drudgeries of life.
When they can look into a wayside puddle and see something besides just mud.
When they know how to live,
how to love, how to hope,
how to pray---are glad to live,
and have in their hearts...a bit of a song."
~ by John Fort Newton
comes a bit of basic light
on the side of my Chai Indian Spice Tea box...
"When is a Person Educated?"
"When they can look out upon the universe,
now lucid and lovely,
now dark and terrible,
with a sense of their own littleness in the great scheme of things,
and yet have large faith and vast courage.
When they know how to make friends and keep them,
and, above all, when they can keep friends with themselves.
When they can be happy alone and high-minded amid the drudgeries of life.
When they can look into a wayside puddle and see something besides just mud.
When they know how to live,
how to love, how to hope,
how to pray---are glad to live,
and have in their hearts...a bit of a song."
~ by John Fort Newton