Wordstock

Perhaps it's because our mother was a teacher (and made us look up the spelling of words we didn't know in a giant dictionary by the front door), but I love words in poetry, in books, when talking. Portland is a city obsessed with words too and has an annual event called Wordstock where writers get together and discuss their work. I missed it this year, but found some great quotes in the newspaper this morning. One was from Alexandre Poussin who made a journey across Africa with his wife on mostly the good graces of strangers. He says, "I believe you must have very little goals, but you must follow them to the end. You ought to wish little, but for a long period of time." The only other choice, " is to be unfocused, dispersed and to achieve nothing."

This same article quoted G.K. Chesterton, "An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered." I LOVE that!