aloft

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. T.S.Eliot

I have loved this quote for such a long time.

Once, when I was finished with the book, Blue Highways by William Least Heat Moon, I closed the cover and immediately wrote to the author, and unbelievably he wrote back - in longhand! Mind you it was in the 1980's somewhere, but even then typewriters were invented! I told him in the note how much I loved the book and  that I thought the above quote nut-shelled his book. He agreed and said that the quote was in the book until about the fourth editing and he was glad I found it on my own.

I feel with Mr. Eliot that our search for happiness, success, peace, fulfillment - all take us far afield, until we return to that backyard of the heart where the swing touched the clouds and we soared.