Monday, April 14, 2008

Through Small and Simple Things are Great Things Brought To Pass




When I heard the learn'd astronomer;
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;
When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and
measure them;
When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much
applause in the lecture-room,
How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick;
Till rising and gliding out, I wander'd off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.
----Walt Whitman

Isn't it interesting that some of the most profound life lessons learned come in the most simple of forms. The spirit truly does teach through simple and still means.

1 comment:

Deb Lamb said...

Thank you Taniel--I appreciate the thoughts you share. It really is true--I learn this more every day.