Van Gogh paints it, Fromm says it, Jesus lives it, and Tolkein turns it into everyone’s story; normal is a very bad place to be.
“As they sang the hobbit felt the love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic moving through him, a fierce and jealous love, the desire of the hearts of dwarves. Then something tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking stick.”
Thanks to grand master blogess Oddny Gumaer for digging this out of pinterest and planting it in my inbox. Hopefully in 2015 I’ll finish my book. Until then lets keep fighting dragons, babe.
“What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit their very self?” Luke 9:25
