Year Of Change {III}

Reflections on my Year Of Change three months into the Year After That?

Well, the Year After That fully endorses whatever was written, noted or understood in the Year Of Change! My ten previous points (5 here, 5 there) are still valid (more than ever, actually), and no matter how much has happened over the past few months that’s kept me from writing, it’s not changed what I learnt. Neither has it Continue reading

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Found an old notebook with quotes from the past and I must share some…
My year of change post is not finished and life is taking me all directions in 2013, but I will be back, and I hope quotes can keep the B&T spirit alive for now.

That one’s a quote from a book by l’Abbe Pierre, of all people. It’s taken from a letter from one of his best friends, a friend who inspired and supported him in his darkest moments (of which he had many throughout his life, but particularly when he was a teen and in his early twenties…):

“Life is the joy which we irradiate. It’s the endless fight against ourselves. Life at 15 is the great fight for purity (by which we are so often defeated, but we get back up again). Life, but we are in the process of preparing it. Of those preparations it depends entirely…

Life, we make it happen now. Later, we each will live it as we please, and better if we have prepared ourselves well”

Letter from a friend to l’Abbe Pierre, 1928