On a Similar Word, Note

"But I can't say it like I sing it
and I can't sing it like I think it
and I can't think it like I feel it
. . . and I don't feel a thing . . ."

Pedro the Lion "The Fleecing"

Some Word Wizardry

"Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought."

- E.Y. Harburg

Long Lost Source

If I had $10 for every time I had a worthwhile thought that was linked to something I read, but then either couldn't find the book or find the quote within the book . . . I'd be well on my way towards hmmm, a Vox AC30, or a Marshall Vintage Modern, or . . .

At the very least I'd have a few more thoughts written down - not just bouncing around in my head. Here are a couple quotes I came across as I was trying to find the quotes I really wanted.

"Happiness is always moving." - Ron Sexsmith

"Happiness depends on something happening, but joy depends on knowing the One who is eternally happy." - Graham Cooke

1 . . . 2 . . . ok, 3

Back in the far corner of a bookstore I found C.S. Lewis' anthology of George MacDonald quotes - marked down for $4. Pure buried treasure. I was going to share a quote here, and then I looked on the opposite page and found another good one . . . and a little further down, another one.

So this is Dahms picking from what Lewis culled from MacDonald . . . for you. The first one Lewis gave the title:

"How to Become a Dunce"

Naturally capable, he had already made of himself rather a dull fellow; for when a man spends his energy on appearing to have, he is all the time destroying what he has, and therein the very means of becoming what he desires to seem. If he gains his end, his success is his punishment.

"Prudence"

No man can order his life, for it comes flowing over him from behind . . . The one secret of life and development is not to devise and plan but to fall in with the forces at work - to do every moment's duty aright - that being the part in the process allotted to us: and let come - not what will, for there is no such thing - but what the eternal thought wills for each of us, has intended in each of us from the first.

"Prudence"

Had he had more of the wisdom of the serpent . . . he would perhaps have known that to try too hard to make people good is one way to make them worse; that the only way to make them good is to be good - remembering well the beam and the mote; that the time for speaking comes rarely, the time for being never departs.