261. The Triumphant Emergence of Meaning

"We live in all we seek.  The hidden shows up in too-plain sight.  It lives captive on the face of the obvious - the people, events, and things of the day - to which we as sophisticated children, have long since become oblivious.  What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color."  - Annie Dillard, For The Time Being via Lifecraft, The Art of Meaning in the Everyday by Forrest Church.

"We sat tight and bent our minds to the goal.  We went over Berthoud Pass, down to the great plateau, Tabernash, Troublesome, Kremmling;  down Rabbit Ears Pass to Steamboat Spring, and out;  fifty miles of dusty detour;  then Craig and the Great American Desert.  As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert that seemed to point a finger at me and say, 'Pass here and go on, you're on the road to heaven.'"  - Jack Kerouac, On The Road