There is much to be undone.
From A World Worth Saving, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
The man in the brown coat came back to the bench today with a list, and I could see from the maple that half of it was crossed out already. He had the look of someone gaining on a thing. Then he turned the paper over and there was writing on that side too, and he sat for a long while without adding anything. For years I took a list to be a shrinking object; you work at it and it gets smaller, the way a seed gets smaller while you eat it. But the crossing out is only the visible half. There is much to be undone, and he folded the paper and put it in his pocket and watched a dog instead.
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
- Breathe in the sea and keep its rhythm in your heart.
- A bee that starts building a hive won’t work long alone.
- It is hard to look at the stars and worry about what people think of you.
- Seek your counsel in the night sky.
- A garden needs two forms of sunshine: the kind that comes from the sun and the kind that comes from mouths with upturned corners.
- You don't have to be a god to work miracles in a garden.