Okay< i guess that it's time to get this blog going. I must admit one of the reasons that I don't do much here is that I am a very slow typist, also I feel it is much harder to write my thoughts than it is to speak them. I am such a verbal person and love the interaction of conversation and have the immediate feedback that it brings. I was encouraged by my dear niece to post a poem that I recently came across again. Here it is...

To allow oneself to be carried away
by a multitude of conflicting concerns,
To surrender to too many demands,
To commit oneself to too many projects,
To want to help everyone in everything,
Is to succumb to violence.

Frenzy destroys our inner capacity for peace.
It destroys the fruitfulness of our work,
because it lills the root of inner wisdom
which makes work fruitful.

Thomas Merton