She liiiiives!
Update on Jubilare: I have, for a month now, been working only one job. I am financially poorer, but richer in pretty much every other way now. It’s great!
I have been absent here because, after over a year of working 2 jobs, I was worn out. Since then it’s been because I am playing catch-up on things, and my MonsterMuse has been ferociously active. Spring is here, I have crocus and my favorite variety of daffodils. I have planted sweet-peas, radishes and turnips. I am in good health, and so, thank God, is the rest of my family.The fly in my ointment is that I miss this blog, and everyone who reads it, and all the blogs I read. I need to ease back in slowly, though, so that I don’t over exert myself. So, for a while, I will be re-blogging old posts from when I first started rambling here. It does me good to backtrack, sometimes, and reconsider things I’ve said in the past. And I hope you all will enjoy the wandering, too.
But I will offer a quote which I have been mulling over from G. K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy as well as some of my mullings.
“No one doubts that an ordinary man can get on with this world: but we demand not strength enough to get on with it, but strength enough to get it on. Can he hate it enough to change it, and yet love it enough to think it worth changing? Can he look up at its colossal good without once feeling acquiescence? Can he look up at its colossal evil without once feeling despair? Can he, in short, be at once not only a pessimist and an optimist, but a fanatical pessimist and a fanatical optimist? Is he enough of a pagan to die for the world and enough of a Christian to die to it?”
Simultaneous fanatical pessimism and fanatical optimism… the words do not, in…
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March 2nd, 2016 at 2:17 pm
Glad to have you back (even if in rerun form)!
March 3rd, 2016 at 8:19 am
^_^ Thanks! I look forward to getting back to reading your geekily profound thoughts.
March 2nd, 2016 at 4:05 pm
Yay for the choices that leave us richer (even if not in money)!
March 3rd, 2016 at 8:20 am
Indeed! If only there were more choices that left us richer in both. One of my cats is sick, and vet bills threaten.
March 3rd, 2016 at 3:36 pm
Oh dear! Best wishes for a speedy recovery for the poor critter and peace of mind (or heart?) for you.
March 2nd, 2016 at 6:09 pm
Glad to see you again! May you have riches of whatever kind are needed next.
March 3rd, 2016 at 8:21 am
*hugs* Hiya! Glad to see you again, too.
March 7th, 2016 at 9:32 pm
Hehe, reading the Chesterton quote, I was thinking “I’ve read this recently…why have I read this recently???” Then I realized you’d linked to it in your email. We have too many good conversations, Anne. They are starting to all run together into one big ball of awesome.
And I have to type up old texts before I can delete them to make room for new ones. :-)
March 7th, 2016 at 11:12 pm
Lol! Well, it could be a big ball of worse things. I’ll take big ball of awesome any day.
I managed to type up a fair number last weekend in between chasing the nephew and, well, chasing the nephew. Let me know what you want and I’ll send it to you.