Day 121h: A better than perfect Timing … (August 28, 2019)
It took quite a bit of moxie and more than a bit of persistence to make my slow-but-steady way along the uber-thin-shouldered route of Old Court Road, and I eventually (and super gratefully) finally entered the outer vestiges of the town of Granite (also known as Woodstock), where the cozy porch of a a beautiful roadside home (it looked like a converted inn, and turned out to be a historical landmark of some local note) beckoned to me and I willingly answered its call. Intending only to rest there a bit from the abject chaos of the roadway, I didn’t even bother knocking on the door to see if anyone was home. And yet no sooner had I resolved to get up and get on with it, Mimi arrived home with her lovely (and at first disconcertingly large) dogs in tow and invited me in for a bit of food and friendship. And good thing she did, too, as no sooner had we entered into what turned out to be a delightful conversation than the rains began to pour down outside, and I was able to thankfully remain there with her and her canine companions (enjoying what was possibly the tastiest PB&J sandwich of my entire pilgrimage) until the storm passed …
“We cannot do all the good that the world needs, and yet the world desperately needs us to do all the good that we can do … In truth, we are all so accustomed to the comforts of ‘I can’t’ and ‘I don’t want to’ and ‘It’s too difficult’ that we forget to realize that whenever we stop doing things for others and expect others to dance around us, we cannot come to achieving any measure of our innate & potent Greatness. Our selfishness has made us weak. And yet within us all lives a source of great & potent Strength; a source of community and harmony and peace and love … The only important kind of Freedom available to us involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort. It involves being able to truly and deeply and boldly Care about other people and to willingly & even joyfully sacrifice for them, over and over, in a dancing myriad of seemingly petty unsexy ways.” ~ inspired by Jana Stanfield, Pandora Poikilos & David Foster Wallace
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