Not every light lights the way home.
From Leaving No Stone Unthrown, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
A window on the third floor of the brick building stayed lit all night, and I spent most of November steering by it. It was the brightest thing between the water tower and the highway, so I took it for a landmark, and twice I came down in the wrong yard with a dog in it. Last night the window went dark and I found the elm without trouble, which told me the elm had been there the whole time and I had been looking at the glass instead. Not every light lights the way home. For years I thought the trouble with a dark night was the dark, and it is not, it is that one bright thing makes you stop counting the others. Switch says he navigates by smell and has never once ended up on the wrong roof, which may be true and is certainly said too often.
He reads what you tell him and writes a page of his journal back, with a few of these chosen for you. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.
Have it on something
More like it
- The problem with positive thinking is that somebody else defines positive.
- It is easier to judge a man than to know him.
- There are few judgments made less true by being made less harsh.
- Living in a black-and-white world drains life not only of its color, but its wisdom.
- We expect life to treat us all the same though we each ask for something different.
- Those who are lost try hardest to get others to follow.