06-22-2018, 09:53 AM
Don't know that things went "wrong"
I thought I’d title the thread as a segue into the article and it’s title. I haven’t checked, but “When Things Don’t Go Exactly As Planned” probably has a few too many characters to fit, although something like “When Things Don’t Go Exactly As Pla” might in fact be even better.
I alternate between thinking of the planet as home — dear and familiar stone hearth and garden — and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners. Today I favor the latter view. The word “sojourner”... invokes a nomadic people’s sense of vagrancy, a praying people’s knowledge of estrangement, a thinking people’s intuition of sharp loss: “For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.” - Annie Dillard
I thought I’d title the thread as a segue into the article and it’s title. I haven’t checked, but “When Things Don’t Go Exactly As Planned” probably has a few too many characters to fit, although something like “When Things Don’t Go Exactly As Pla” might in fact be even better.
I alternate between thinking of the planet as home — dear and familiar stone hearth and garden — and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners. Today I favor the latter view. The word “sojourner”... invokes a nomadic people’s sense of vagrancy, a praying people’s knowledge of estrangement, a thinking people’s intuition of sharp loss: “For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.” - Annie Dillard
"I'm at that stage in life where I stay out of discussions. Even if you say 1+1=5, you're right - have fun." - Keanu Reeves