Tina Time

3/7/06

I cannot believe this is my 4th blog post and I have totally missed (until today) seeing this as another opportunity to offer quotes! I have the quote of the day on my wipe off board at work, as the signature on my email and now, can post a daily thought here! So exciting! why am I so enamored of quotes? (you ask). It must stem, first, from a love of words and an appreciation of putting those words together in a way that provokes thought or offers new ideas.

Also, there is something to be said for the concise nature of a quote. You get, at best, 2 sentences, most are one. So the challenge, much like poetry, is to make a specific statement within the confines of structure. And, in the case of quotes, the challenge is to impart your message in a clever, familiar, or stylish enough way to make the thought seep through and keep it with you far after the original reading of the quote is over. If it cannot do this, what's the point?

So, now, having built up the Quote of the Day idea, I offer the first of (what is planned to be) my offering of a sniglet of a thought to ponder each day......(now I have built this up and all quotes will seem inadequate). Oh well, here goes with the original thought I picked out before creating this entry:


"The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us." ~Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936, British author)

it will do....