Monday, January 19, 2009

Quote of the week...

Sometimes we fool ourselves into thinking that our day to day life is really all that there is. Carl Sandburg writes an amazing poem called "The Limited" which helps us to peel back the veneer of our everyday experience in order to see that there is always more going on.

I AM riding on a limited express, one of the crack trains of the nation.

Hurtling across the prairie into blue haze and dark air go fifteen all-steel coaches holding a thousand people.

(All the coaches shall be scrap and rust and all the men and women laughing in the diners and sleepers shall pass to ashes.)

I ask a man in the smoker where he is going and he answers: "Omaha."

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