The Boston Globe publishes a piece called Reflection For The Day on the same page with the chess puzzle, which is the only reason I read it. When I’m scratching my head trying to solve the chess problem I’ll drop down and read the Reflection, and often scratch my head again. Sometimes they remind me of my college freshman friend Don Peters who seemed full of stop you in mid-stride on your way to Dr’s Erickson’s Logic class pithy quotes.
But more often these Reflections leave me thinking how obvious or how dumb. Maybe I need someone to pull me through a man-sized Chef’s Choice knife sharpener so I can leave my present place alongside my dull buddies. Or maybe, with age, I’ve lost that sense of wonder?
Anyway, here are two that I did like:
We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
– Joseph Campbell American writer & educator (1904-1987)
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British poet (1772-1834)
Jen
Wow. Powerful.
el Kib
So what think you of todays’s (and its juxtaposition to this holiday)? by Freya Stark (the female Lawrence of Arabia):
“Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.”
michael
Reminds me of Zippy – I don’t get it.
In a similar vein I incorporated yesterday’s Curtis into my yearly Thanksgiving toast. I’m sue you did too.