grace, sufficient and extravagant

As I climbed into bed last night, I was distracted by the view out my window and a thought.

I love this place.

It got me out of bed early the other day, too, because I woke up and the sky was so gloriously beautiful.  It fits right in with the over-joyed theme of this summer.  

This summer makes for a second full rotation of seasons that I've had in Bloomington, living in the same apartment in the same town.  It has been so very, very good. 

There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life.

Every one of them sufficient.

~Marylynne Robinson

We're so lucky we're still alive to see this beautiful world.

Look at the sky.

It's not dark and black and without character.

The black is in fact deep blue.

And over there!  Lighter blue.

And blowing through the blueness and the blackness,

the winds swirling through the air.

And there, shining, burning, bursting through,

the stars!

Can you see how they roll their light?

Everywhere we look, 

complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.

~Dr. Who

Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible.

Love always takes time,

and time is the one thing hurried people don't have.

~John Ortberg

You should have seen that sunrise with your own eyes.

~John Mayer

It's times like these you learn to live again

It's times like these you give and give again

It's times like these you learn to love again

It's times like these time and time again

~Foo Fighters

You say grace before meals.

All right.

But I say grace before the concert & the opera,

& grace before the play & pantomime,

& grace before I open a book,

& grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing

& grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

~G. K. Chesterton