A CRUCIAL PERSPECTIVE

 

"I am informed by philologists that the rise to power of these two words, “problem” and “solution,” as the dominating terms of public debate is an affair of the last two centuries, and especially of the 19th, having synchronized, so they say, with a parallel rise to power of the word “happiness.”. . . On the whole, the influence of these words is malign, and becomes increasingly so. They have deluded poor men with Messianic expectations, which are fatal to steadfast persistence in good workmanship and to well-doing in general. Let the valiant citizen never be ashamed to confess that he has “no solution to the social problem” to offer his fellow-men. Let him offer them rather the service of his skill, his vigilance, his fortitude, and his probity. For the matter in question is not primarily a problem, nor the answer to it a solution."

1920s Lecture given by L.P. Jacks, quoted by Dorothy L. Sayers in her book, The Mind of the Maker 

LIVE THE QUESTIONS NOW

 

"I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."  

- Letters to a Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke 

THE HOPE OF SPRING AND NEW VIDEOS

 

The extra light we are getting after daylight savings is going straight to my heart and is slowly healing the whole of my body. I've always said summer is my favorite season, but increasingly, I am endeared to spring because it's the season that rescues me out of winter. We inhaled through a few cold fronts here in March, but now there is promise of real spring. It is surely more poignant because the past couple of seasons has been one of survival, but like the adage says, anything worth doing, takes time.  I skipped planting last year, but I'm feeling up for it this time around. My hands are already tingling with the feel of dirt underneath my fingernails. 

I also recently got around to posting our "home video" camping trips on our Living with the Lus Youtube page - the videos I made before we had any plans to start a Youtube page - and I also finished editing and posting our weekend at Crabtree Falls and Sherando Lake last year.  It helps that I am aching to get back out to the trees and lakes this year.  

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