exploring how we would live if we truly believed life was meaningful
After years of procrastination, I had finally started my blog and the first post was perfect. Everything made sense, while flowing eloquently and beautifully. I was proud of it, and wasn’t overcome with my usual frustration about something subtle with the tone, or the ending, or the whole topic itself that would cause me to […]
“There are degrees in idealism. We learn first to play with it academically, as the magnet was once a toy. Then we see in the heyday of youth and poetry that it may be true, that it is true in gleams and fragments. Then, its countenance waxes stern and grand, and we see that it must be true.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
I found this quote well described my own experience– consistently reworking my idealism, being surprised by it, sometimes even losing it only to discover it all the more fully. I know we will never find all the answers, but how thrilling it is to find ourselves getting a little closer to the source and summit of things, a little closer, as we work our way through the “degrees.”
A short novella in which Lucifer talks about his dad.