Gift from the Sea

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

it is perfect for today

and is nudging me to a place of peace, of undulations, of … I cannot quite describe it. It is what drove me to write because I almost crowded a quote at the bottom of a page but didn’t, and before writing the quote atop a new + clean page, I scribbled in orange ink:

do not do such injustice!

I meant: do no such injustice as to write a great quote on the last line of a page, then realized, in orange ink again =),

it applies to so much!

may the outward and inward man be at one

SOCRATES, from Phaedrus

PS:

The day after, I read in the first book that when we turn to God, we pray. It is so simple! Seems much of everything is simple. I am not oversimplifying or overgeneralizing. And I believe that is why, more often than not, I find it difficult to get out of my own way.