“Thou takest the pen – and the lines dance. Thou takest the flute – and the notes shimmer.
Thou takest the brush – and the colors sing. So all things have meaning and beauty in that space beyond where Thou art.
How, then, can I hold anything back from Thee.”
— Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings
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From the "Afterword" of Mary Oliver's Blue Pastures comes a good model to take into the workweek:
"I go to my work, as I like to call it, being whimsical and serious at once."
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[Photo: taken of Minneapolis' historic mill district on the Mississippi River from the vantage point of the Guthrie Theater.]