Sometimes it's truly amazing what the vision of one person can create. Just think of how many people that museum has touched. It makes me wonder how many people I can effect. Of those I have already, what has effect been? My hope is not to have my actions dictated by how they will effect other people, but to have my heart so bent on loving others that my actions will naturally fall into that category.
I mentioned today that I should start right now on a life's work. That way, when it is done forty years from now, I can look on it and see my whole life consolidated into a single vision before me. Hmm, I wonder what my life's work will be... A museum like Exploris? An exciting contribution to literature? An exact monochromatic equivalent of the Mona Lisa done completely in gram stained Bacillus Cereus--one cell at a time? I could do anything! Maybe I'll wait a few years.
After Exploris, we three took it up to Goodberrys, where I had an enormous chocolate-malt-and-marshmallow Carolina Concrete. The whole time I was eating it--well, at least all the time I wasn't thinking about how unbelievably delicious it was--I thought about how wonderful it felt to be right where I was with the people I was with at that particular moment. Travis and Danielle are among my favorite people, and similarly, there is no place on Earth like Goodberrys, the marvelous frozen custard shrine. There are so many things around to enjoy!
"The Travis was walking down a path and, noticing the gyre of a bird in flight, he stopped to watch on a fresh, green tuffet. Tired, the old man gently laid down his staff and cocked his head to stroke his aged beard. 'Snippage!' he said with a sagely nod, and then he died... My children, we can all learn something from the Travis."
