The world is wider in all directions, more dangerous and bitter, more …

Annie Dillard
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The world is wider in all directions, more dangerous and bitter, more extravagant and bright. We are making hay when we should be making whoopee; we are raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain and Lazarus.
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I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs. ✨ Annie Dillard (1994). The Annie Dillard reader, Harpercollins
We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence. ✨ Annie Dillard (2011). Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, p.4, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
No, the point is not only does time fly and do we die, but that in these reckless conditions we live at all, and are vouchsafed, for the duration of certain inexplicable moments, to know it. ✨ Annie … ▶
Are you living just a little and calling that life?
We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us.

The world is wider in all directions, more dangerous and bitter, more extravagant and bright. We are making hay when we should be making whoopee; we are raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain and Lazarus.

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