"Every moment of one's life, one is growing into more or retreating into less." - Norman Mailer

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Checking it off the list

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

I have been really inefficient this month. I haven't gotten hardly anything done that I intended to do; but I am finally coming out of my vacational lethargy to check some things of the long-awaited "to do" list. For example, I'm going through a big stack of stuffs that I've been reshuffling for over two years, meaning to "get to it" in that long time. So I'm dealing with the pile; I'm recycling things, sending letters, filing and sifting. It's satisfying. In my checking off of the list, I came across a folder full of half-written letters to my best friend, Elizabeth. Among the things I've been meaning to send to her is a little bookmark from Oprah magazine (that she probably already has, but I still want to give it to her). The quote on it is such a lovely thought, I wanted to share it here:

"I...always imagined Paradise to be a sort of library." - Jorge Luis Borges

Is there any felicity in the world superior to a library? I believe not. (And Elizabeth: there's a preview of all the stuff now on its way!)

2 comments:

Elizabeth said...

Woo! Looking forward to it. I think that bookmark is from my Oprah magazine hiatus, so bring it on.

I think, however, that walking on the moors in the rain might be a superior felicity. Just saying.

Clare said...

yeah, walking on the moors in the rain is pretty awesome...even when one turns one's ankle out in passionate confusion and must be spirited home by a dashing young Willoughby. just saying.