Now that I am back all I can think about is the recently opened Fly Fishing season. My favorite home state fishing spot, Bennett Spring State Park opened on March 1st and I'm itching to get down there ASAP.
* I was checking out the amazing Tim Keel's Blog today and ran across a quote from Annie Dillard's "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"
"Thomas Merton wrote, 'There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.' There is always an enormous temptation in all of life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for itsy-bitsy years on end. It is so self-conscious, so apparently moral, simply to step aside from the gaps where the creeks and winds pour down, saying, I never merited this grace, quite rightly, and then to sulk along the rest of your days on the edge of rage. I won't have it. The world is wilder than that 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, or Lazarus."
J.C+
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