We were keen this week and we each had a quote in mind and we finished it early!!
My quote was written by Becky Whitney. She is the Wellness and Drug Awareness worker in this tiny northern community. I saw this quote on a whiteboard at the wellness house and when I asked who wrote it Becky said she did. I felt that it needed preserving because things on whiteboards just don't last. This was the perfect challenge to get me started on this project for Becky. I will give it to her next time I see her!
Jay choose this quote from Ulysses by Alford Lord Tennyson:
’Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down:
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.
Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down:
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.
Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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