I know no one asked for this but it was passed on to me
and restores a little perspective. Hope it helps.
Joe
A Post-Election Prescription:
What will come of all this on Nov. 3? Some will pick up the
morning
paper and save it for a souvenir, and the others will wrap up
the
garbage in it. What will reconcile us is what has always restored
our
sanity, and that is the plain pleasures of the physical world,
our
common love of coffee, the world of apples, the movement of birds,
the
lives of dogs, the touch of skin. . . . Having worked ourselves into
a
fever over the future of Western civilization, we will now
begin
enjoying our oatmeal again, with raisins, chopped apricots and
honey
from bees that grazed in meadows of clover. The beauty of engagement
is
disengagement. You simply put on your jacket and walk out the door
and
find good health. There is no fever that a 10-mile hike can’t
cure.
--Garrison Keillor, writer and recovering
political partisan, 2004
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp - or
what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
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