"She thought of the delicate gold ring around the compass glass. Because she was human, she had the mind and eyes and skillful hand to imagine the idea of a circle and to draw the idea. But any drop of water falling from a leaf into a pool or rain puddle could make a circle, a more perfect one, fleeting outward from the center, and if there were no boundary to the water the circle would fleet outward forever, fainter and fainter, forever larger. She could not do that, which any drop of water could do.... And the hand erased the circle, smoothing out the sand, leaving it as it had always been and would always be after they had gone on. "
-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Eye of the Heron
While going through my stash of old letters and memorabilia I found a piece of paper that I had typed out quotes on (with an old manual type writer no less!). The funny thing is that I was thinking about this quote awhile ago and trying to remember which Le Guin book it was in. I'm glad to have found it.
Thinking about some of my goals for the new year...to make my stashes more meaningful and to keep the things I love best close. One of the ways to hold things close, is to let other things go. That is one of the things I'm trying to do as I sort through my stashes.