Author: clfuu

 “If I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again, I won’t look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn’t there, I never really lost it to begin with.”
― L. Frank Baum

When have you found your heart’s desire close to home?

Robert Browning famously wrote: “a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?” But when you can’t quite touch what you’re aiming for, it doesn’t feel all that heavenly in the moment. Maybe heaven is not the fulfillment of our desires, but process of moving toward them.

What goal gives you joy in its pursuit, rather than its achievement?

Each single grape is a thing of beauty—sweet/tart, juicy, a burst of delight on the tongue. But who stops with one grape? Sometimes delight comes in great bunches, more than anyone could ever have expected, but not more than anyone could want.

What fills you with an abundance of delight?

“Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know—because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

What desire has turned to dust when you got it?

We are all pulled to see the world in a way that matches our views and desires. But sometimes we manage to pull one another in ways that make it possible to see the world from a whole new perspective.

Who has pulled you into a new way of seeing?