If you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days.
~Annie Dillard, "Seeing," Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
This still-life image is one I snapped in Brooke's lovely home. The morning light made every angle of her kitchen beautiful.
Previous posts about simplicity.
2 comments:
What a beautiful quote. It is illuminating to see the words "healthy" and "poverty" used together, Zen-like. Perhaps that is what gratitude is: a poverty of the soul that recognizes every gift as precious.
so beautiful ...
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