Garden of Thought

So - My daughter was at a grocery store recently - a very small boy came along pushing one of those tiny 'shopper in training' type mini-shopping carts they have for kids to "help" with.  He toddled his cart right over to the display of toilet paper and with effort, hefted a huge package of TP onto it. 
Child: *in small, lower-case child's voice*: "We can't forget this, 'cause it's about all I do!"
Mom (nodding): "Yep. Yep, that's right."

Heh.

Coming in from working in the yard with the morning robins hopping about me, I was looking over meneleth's post this morning with some of her favorite quotes. She suggested sharing a favorite in return - but so many of mine are not quotes, they are passages that I thought it better to simply post one here. One of the several 'blank books' that I have around the house to write various things in is slowly filling up with favorite quotes, jokes, snatches, poems and passages that I've come across over the years and not wanted to have to go find every time I wanted to read them again, this is from there - I no longer remember which book of G.K. Chesterton's I found it in, but I still love the image of the sun bounding happily over the field of daisies out of sheer joy for something that never will grow old:

"Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free; therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say "Do it again," and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning "Do it again," to the sun; and every evening "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike, it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we." - G.K. Chesterton