{"id":11839,"date":"2015-02-27T11:26:24","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T16:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quiltr.com\/?p=11839"},"modified":"2015-02-27T11:26:24","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T16:26:24","slug":"adventure-all-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=11839","title":{"rendered":"Adventure all around"},"content":{"rendered":"

The true method of knowledge is experiment. \u2014 William Blake<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Went out this morning on a quick errand and for a quick breakfast and found myself admiring my little corner of the world. So much of what we do, we do blindly and yet it’s all around us, the world and everything it has to show us.<\/p>\n

The hills here are old and worn down but they follow off to the horizon. The roads wind back and forth and up and down in obedience to the land. The streams now are frozen and snow-covered but in a few months they’ll be open and wild until summer dries them up again.<\/p>\n

As a wise person once said:<\/p>\n

He used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary. “It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,” he used to say. “You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to. (Frodo, of Bilbo) \u2014J.R.R. Tolkien<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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