fleeting

I'm 750 pages into my cathedral building book now, it clearly has some allure for me to get so far, but there is just so much death in it (what did I expect, it is the middle ages). Last night it made me sad, just how fleeting our existence is. How so many of the people in the book are doing what they ought to, not what they want to.
Yesterday I did a lot of what I wanted to, several Skype calls in the morning and a lovely evening out with my boy. Today some of the ought to's will have to take priority or we'll have no clean trays to cook on!!

Apparently yesterday was Thomas Merton's 100th birthday. I like this quote from him:

"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them." —Thomas Merton

I think it's important to love people for who they are, not who we'd like them to be. I shall be reminding myself of this, tho my main task today is to think up 7 interesting facts about myself. Given that all I've got so far is that I'm left handed like most of the other females in my family, this might take a bit of work...