“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
C.S. Lewis
“We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.
Blessed are they who love their brothers and sisters as much when they are sick, as when they are well and of service.
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.
Keep a clear eye toward life's end. And remember that when you leave this earth, you can take nothing that you have received, but only what you have given.”
Francis of Assisi, Fioretti di San Francesco
“Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist— and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have life.”
Léon Bloy
Stocks ranged back and forth in a volatile day, finishing largely where they started.
Dare I suggest that the market is antsy waiting for the Payrolls Report on Friday?
But there is always time for a wash and rinse or two, and a few Banks and hedge funds can bang stocks prices around as they will in light volumes and tight trading.
Gold and silver rallied fairly well early on but were hammered back down quite firmly into the close.
The Dollar gained back the 106 handle later in the day.
Daisy received a thorough examination at our vet today, and it was sad to see the full extent of the profound neglect and misuse she has suffered in her life before she was tossed on the streets.
We will love her, and do right by her, one day at a time. And thereby we ourselves in turn will be healed.
Have a pleasant evening.
