A Journal of Days: Thou Who Was Rich Beyond All Splendour

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Sunday, December 18, 2016

Sunday Singing, Thou Who Was Rich Beyond All Splendour

"The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside from a generous hand. But who gets excited by a mere penny?...It is dire poverty indeed when a man is so malnourished and fatigued that he won't stoop to pick up a penny. But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted with pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days. It is that simple. what you see is what you get."

Annie Dillard "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"