Independence Day

I was writing about Independence day in my tarot blog and quoted from John Donne, so I went to look it up to make sure that I got it right..



Meditation XVII

No man is an island, entire of itself
every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main
if a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were,
as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were
any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind
and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls
it tolls for thee.


I know I often worry about the cost of a liberal arts education, and though it didn't give me the clear career path I thought I wanted in my 20's, it's serving me well these nearly 30 years later, as I recall poems and writers I read then, and who speak even louder to me now...