If we do not watch, we lose our opportunities; if we do not make haste, we are left behind. Day's Collacon

“Sometimes we have to wait, for the best.” My Sweet Orange Tree

“The power and capacity of learning exists in the soul already; and that just as the eye was unable to turn from darkness to light without the whole body, so too the instrument of knowledge can only by the movement of the whole soul be turned from the world of becoming into that of being, and learn by degrees to endure the sight of being, and of the brightest and best of being, or in other words, of the good.” Republic

I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but caring little for it, and even less for my imperfect garden. Essays