"Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. You gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything." -Thomas Merton
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Friday the 13th. Tricadecaphobia for many, but not me. I'm remembering the children's story about the wolf and the grapes. The wolf is under a tree with grapes hanging just out of reach, after trying to get the grapes by jumping and jumping. He imagined how sweet and juicy they would taste. After trying as hard as he could, the grapes remained out of reach.


I'm sitting at home in my wheelchair, looking out the window at my newly delivered SUV. It's too rainy to try to open the door and look inside, so I am just looking at my new transportation and telling myself that I can't drive it anyway...just like the wolf told himself that the grapes were probably sour and bitter when he could not find a way to reach them.