Thoughts from C.S. Lewis

One of the things I like about Phase II of my life (the one after law school) is the ability to read whatever I want, whether it be childish, entertaining, challenging, or reflective. Between the library and friends' houses, there are a lot of books I want to read. Sometimes I get overwhelmed, but then I realize there is no rush, which is the whole point.

I just finished a picture book biography about C.S. Lewis, "Images of His World." It was very peaceful and reflective. I'm just going to copy here a couple of quotes I love that came from letters Lewis wrote to his friends.

About home and locality (see writings of Wendell Berry- sense of place):

"There is one odd thing I have been noticing since we came to our new house, which is much more in the country, and it is this. Hitherto there has always been something not so much in the landscape as in every single visual impression (say a cloud, a robin, or a ditch) in Ireland, which I lacked in England: something for which homeliness is an inadequate word. This something I find I am now getting in England-- the feeling of connectedness, of being part of it. I suppose I have been growing into the soil here much more since the move."

About pace:

"I number it among my blessings that my father had no car...The deadly power of rushing about wherever I pleased had not been given me. I have not been allowed to deflower the very idea of distance....

No one can describe the delight of coming to a sudden drop and looking down into a rich wooded valley where you see the roofs of the place where you're going to have supper and bed; especially if the sunset lies on the ridge beyond the valley. There is so much mixed in it; the mere physical anticipation, as of a horse nearing his stable, the sense of accomplishment and the feeling of 'one more town,' one further away into the country you don't know, and the old, never hackneyed romance of travelling."

About healing:

"I gazed down into a little ditch beneath a grey hedge, where there was a pleasant mixture of ivies and low plants and mosses and thought of herbalists and their art, and what a private retired wisdom it would be to go on probing along such hedges and the eaves of woods for some herb of virtuous powers... and having at the same time a stronger sense of the mysteries at our feet where homeliness and magic embrace one another."

Life in New Braunfels

Life in New Braunfels is peaceful. I role out of bed, get some tea, and sit at my computer. On some days, Jon makes me breakfast in bed. Either way, he is always cooking for dad and I, and we consider him the firm's chef. It is great working with him around. And it is great working from home. All the way around it is a good life here. I am beginning to get a lot of business, which is keeping me busy. But I am learning how to manage it, by deciding not to take certain cases, and I am lucky to have some great clients. I have soooo much to learn, but I am excited about it.




Jon's homemade almond flour pancakes with homemade yogurt (delicious!).


The appetizer to an amazing all raw, three course meal at Moo-Jesus Ranch.