If you would make a man happy, do not add to his possessions but subtract from the sum of his desires.

     Seneca

 

 

Stephen Wilder

Mary McDowell Center for Learning

20 Bergen St.

Brooklyn, NY 11201

stephenw@mmcl.net

718 625-3939

 

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Autumn Quince

How sad they are,
the promises we never return to.
They stay in our mouths,
roughen the tongue, lead lives of their own.
Houses built and unwittingly lived in;
a succession of milk bottles brought to the door
every morning and taken inside.

And which one is real?
The music in the composer's ear
or the lapsed piece the orchestra plays?
The world is a blurred version of itself --
marred, lovely, and flawed.
It is enough.

~ Jane Hirschfield ~

 

 

 

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence. Lewis Mumford