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Meme Day 3: My favorite quote
(Though I cannot hear anyone refer to the noun as a "quote" without hearing high-school-aged ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
daveamongus huffily correct that it's a quotation.)
No meme post yesterday because it was a long day, which started around 3AM when my roommate got into a screaming fight with her (hopefully now ex) boyfriend outside my bedroom door that kept me up for an hour or so, progressed through a long, tired workday, an interruption on my drive down to Iulia's when I stopped for dinner and locked my keys in my car (hooray, Allstate motor club!), and ended on Iulia's couch, watching her and her husband play Diablo until I fell asleep with their dog in my lap.
Which brings me right around to my favorite quote:
And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall be well
It's a pair of lines from TS Eliot's "Little Gidding," a poem I first read to chase down the origin of the line on this icon, whichsplash_the_cat made, and which was probably my first SG-1 icon:
Reading "Little Gidding," two or three years after I'd finally given up on being Catholic, kind of made me understand what people meant by "a religious experience." It was the first time I had ever read something that resonated with me so deeply and gave me such an instant sense of sacred wisdom. I was torn between wanting to run around demanding that other people read it and wanting not to speak of it at all because other people might not see what I saw in it. To this day I keep a copy of the Four Quartets in my bag all the time, and reread one or another of the poems from time to time whenever I'm stuck somewhere with nothing to do.
Those two lines, in addition to representing my favorite poem, sum up my outlook on life--I'm a determined optimist. Plus those lines are Eliot quoting Julian of Norwich, a medieval anchoress and mystic who was the author of the earliest surviving book in English written by a woman. So it's pleasing on multiple levels.
1. Intro and a recent picture
2. 20 facts about you
3. Your favorite quote
4. What are you afraid of?
5. 10 songs you love right now
6. Your 5 senses right now
7. Your pet hates
8. What's in your handbag?
9. What are your worst habits?
10. What's your best physical feature?
11. List 15 of your favorite things
12. What's inside your fridge?
13. What is your earliest memory?
14. If you won the lottery...
15. Timeline of your day
16. What's at the top of your bucket list?
17. What is your most proud moment?
18. The meaning behind your blog name
19. What do you collect?
20. A difficult time in your life
21. Your 10 favorite foods
22. The best thing to happen this year
23. Your dream job
24. Your favorite childhood book
25. Your 5 favorite blogs
26. An old photo of you
27. Post your favorite recipe
28. What are you looking forward to?
29. Where have you travelled?
30. What's in your makeup bag?
31. Why do you blog?
Also, Happy American Thanksgiving! I am currently being thankful for my family, in all its forms and definitions, and for all of you, my friends in the computer box, and for the variety of pies we will be eating later, and for The National, who have now recorded two different Thanksgiving songs:
2013 Thanksgiving Song (What Thanksgiving's All About)
2012 Thanksgiving Song (Kill the Turkey)
daveamongus huffily correct that it's a quotation.)No meme post yesterday because it was a long day, which started around 3AM when my roommate got into a screaming fight with her (hopefully now ex) boyfriend outside my bedroom door that kept me up for an hour or so, progressed through a long, tired workday, an interruption on my drive down to Iulia's when I stopped for dinner and locked my keys in my car (hooray, Allstate motor club!), and ended on Iulia's couch, watching her and her husband play Diablo until I fell asleep with their dog in my lap.
Which brings me right around to my favorite quote:
And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall be well
It's a pair of lines from TS Eliot's "Little Gidding," a poem I first read to chase down the origin of the line on this icon, which
splash_the_cat made, and which was probably my first SG-1 icon:Reading "Little Gidding," two or three years after I'd finally given up on being Catholic, kind of made me understand what people meant by "a religious experience." It was the first time I had ever read something that resonated with me so deeply and gave me such an instant sense of sacred wisdom. I was torn between wanting to run around demanding that other people read it and wanting not to speak of it at all because other people might not see what I saw in it. To this day I keep a copy of the Four Quartets in my bag all the time, and reread one or another of the poems from time to time whenever I'm stuck somewhere with nothing to do.
Those two lines, in addition to representing my favorite poem, sum up my outlook on life--I'm a determined optimist. Plus those lines are Eliot quoting Julian of Norwich, a medieval anchoress and mystic who was the author of the earliest surviving book in English written by a woman. So it's pleasing on multiple levels.
1. Intro and a recent picture
2. 20 facts about you
3. Your favorite quote
4. What are you afraid of?
5. 10 songs you love right now
6. Your 5 senses right now
7. Your pet hates
8. What's in your handbag?
9. What are your worst habits?
10. What's your best physical feature?
11. List 15 of your favorite things
12. What's inside your fridge?
13. What is your earliest memory?
14. If you won the lottery...
15. Timeline of your day
16. What's at the top of your bucket list?
17. What is your most proud moment?
18. The meaning behind your blog name
19. What do you collect?
20. A difficult time in your life
21. Your 10 favorite foods
22. The best thing to happen this year
23. Your dream job
24. Your favorite childhood book
25. Your 5 favorite blogs
26. An old photo of you
27. Post your favorite recipe
28. What are you looking forward to?
29. Where have you travelled?
30. What's in your makeup bag?
31. Why do you blog?
Also, Happy American Thanksgiving! I am currently being thankful for my family, in all its forms and definitions, and for all of you, my friends in the computer box, and for the variety of pies we will be eating later, and for The National, who have now recorded two different Thanksgiving songs:
2013 Thanksgiving Song (What Thanksgiving's All About)
2012 Thanksgiving Song (Kill the Turkey)