so now i think i will just share a couple of pics of my window box - my lowly substitute for a garden.
i have to write again, because a funny thing happened - i get an email once a week from an organization involved in the 'third sector' - or the social enterprise sector. anyway, the person who writes it is a brilliant writer, and always puts some of this own thoughts in as well as some quotes he likes. today's one contained something i used to have written up for myself in the '80s - before my dad died. its just that after he died i went and burnt loads of journals and writings and stuff - this amongst them - but i loved this - so here it is:
“That is at the bottom the only courage that is demanded of us; to have courage for the most strange, the most singular and the most inexplicable that we may encounter. That mankind has in this sense been cowardly has done life endless harm; the experiences that are called visions, the whole so-called spirit-world, death, all those things that are so closely akin to us, have by daily parrying been so crowded out by life that the senses with which we could have grasped them are atrophied.” - Rainer Maria Rilke
there. gosh i havent read that for years. forgot all about it even. and there it is popping up into my life again randomly!
i couldnt find a way to believe in anything at all after my father died. not sure i do now really, but it has been nice to find this quote.
i am passing the tag to write 6 random things about herself to
da da daa daa daaaaaaa
Kate and Calum's (and Robbie's) Big Agentine Adventure
! if she would like to do it.
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