I went into the woods

because I wanted to live deliberately.
I wanted to live deep
and suck out all the marrow of life.
To put to rout all that was not life,
and not, when I had come to die,
discover that I had not lived.

For future reference, just so I don’t forget

“Recover your stars…We need to be stargazers once more, to be idealistic again — unbounded by the pragmatic, unscarred by the cynical. We need to remember when we were more intense about making a difference in the lives of people, when we were more willing to make sacrifices for the principles we held dear, when we looked at the broken world and desired more ardently to take part in its healing, wanting to make a dent on structures of sin and injustice. Gaze at the starts once more and rekindle your fire.”

-Fr. Jojo Magadia 

— 5 months ago