If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can
satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another
world.
-C.S. Lewis
One does not always know what he can do, but he nevertheless instinctively feels, I am good for something! My existence is not without reason!...How can I be of use, how can I be of service? There is something inside me, but what can it be?
~Van Gogh
I can hear your whisper and distant mutter. I can smell your damp on
the breeze and in the sky I see the halo of your violence. Storm I know
you are coming.
If you are a dreamer come in
If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar
A hoper a prayer a magic-bean-buyer
If you're a pretender come sit by my fire
For we have some flax golden tales to spin
Come in!
Come in!
~Shel Silverstein
A professor gave me some valuable advice this past semester. He said that whenever he moves to a new place, no matter how long he will be living there, he always plants something and gets to know the people around him. We won't be living in Columbia for a whole lot longer, but these are petunias that I planted.