"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over."

~ Aneurin Bevan,
Welsh labor leader & politician (1897 - 1960)

"To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it."

-- G. K. Chesterton

This quotation struck me rather strongly, probably because of a recent conversation on abortion rights, the ethics/morality of abortion, and the logical consistency of seemingly every possible position on the matter. In many ways, I think this comment from Chesterton summarizes my own feelings. After all, immoral != illegal.

"I suppose I am moderately devout, but I don't feel impelled to pray in the high places. (I'm more likely to cry out of the depths!) Instead, I climb upward to bask."

~ Uncle Rogi

The Surveillance
(Book One of Intervention)
by Julian May

First of all, Julian May is delightful -- and a little bit scary. She has entire worlds planned out and foreshadows things that materialize eight books later. It's amazing.

In this little section, Uncle Rogi explains his desire to climb mountains -- and that of other people with metafaculties. These two sentences struck me -- is there a difference between "prayer" and "basking"? I think so. And it's the basking that I've been missing.