Quote of Inspiration

I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Atilla and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar



Sunday, December 5, 2010

Quote 16 of 52


With Christmas coming on in a few weeks now, I have been thinking of ways to simplify my life and to "take it down a notch" this year - so that it's not a mad chaos of wrapping paper and toys. I admit that I love presents and just stuff in general, but the following quote makes me think about why I love all this stuff and what it adds (or how it detracts) from my life.


The quote is by Frank Lloyd Wright.


Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.



MamaP
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  1. AnonymousDecember 6, 2010 at 9:00 PM

    This is so true, but muchness is a bad habit hard to break. Read "The Gardener's Cottage" for inspiration. Speaking of...the kids' magzines are ordered and then I just need one more present and your box will be ready to ship next week. I hope you all like the gift I made you and know that it was created with love, crying and cussing!!!xoxoxo, Mom ps--I love the rappelling pics!

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