Tag: Quotes

Time for buttered toast and jelly. Have a pie, bring that too.

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“Tart cherries have been grown in the U.S. for more than a century because they are best for pies, preserves, jellies, juice. The third week of July is usually the peak time to harvest. The national cherry festival is held in July every year  in Traverse City to celebrate the cherry industry Northern Michigan. Michigan is the leading producer of tart cherries in the U.S., producing 75% of the entire annual production (250 million pounds on 36,000 acres of trees).”

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Here it is. The Beacon. For us. The Amateurs.

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A paragraph from Lucas’ first chapter, “The Value of Style,” will suffice to render his point of view, with its fine sense of perspective and proportion, plain: It is unlikely that many of us will be famous, or even remembered. But not less important than the brilliant few that lead a nation or a literature to fresh achievements, are the unknown many whose patient efforts keep the world from running backward; who guard and maintain the ancient values, even if they do not conquer new; whose inconspicuous triumph it is to pass on what they inherited from their fathers, unimpaired and undiminished, to their sons. Enough, for almost all of us, if we can hand on the torch, and not let it down; content to win the affection, if it may be, of a few who know us and to be forgotten when they in their turn have vanished. The destiny of mankind is not governed wholly by its “stars.”

~ Joseph Epstein, A Literary Education and Other Essays

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And all that was leading me where?

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I could never turn back
any more than a record
can spin in reverse.
And all that was leading me where?

To this very moment…

— Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

Notes: Photo – vinylgif.com. Poem: Fables of the Reconstruction

T.G.I.F.: It’s been a long week

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Lightly child, lightly

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I might enjoy being an albatross,

being able to glide for days and

daydream for hundreds of miles along the thermals.

~ Seamus Heaney, Paris Review – The Art of Poetry No. 75

Credits:

  • Image Source: BBC Earth. Poem Source: Schonwieder
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  • Post Title & Inspiration: Aldous Huxley: “It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.”