Some February Beauty

📍Oxford, Iffley Lock

“Now I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had courage to go forth into its expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst its perils. I went to the window, opened it, and looked out.”

"What is the meaning of life?(..) the great revelation had never come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark(..)- this was of the nature of a revelation. In the midst of chaos there was shape, this eternal passing was struck into stability”