About Karen Walrond
About The Make Light Journal
There’s a quote that I love, by Will Durant:
“Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting, and doing things historians usually record; while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry, and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks of the river. ”
I think about this quote all the time. And when I do, I ask myself:
Do I want to be a part of history, or do I want to help build a civilization?