Themed Party | Challenge 60: Evolution - Lost, Jack Shephard
Jack Shephard: I don’t believe in destiny.
John Locke: Yes you do. You just don’t know it yet.
Themed Party | Challenge 60: Evolution - Lost, Jack Shephard
Jack Shephard: I don’t believe in destiny.
John Locke: Yes you do. You just don’t know it yet.
Lamentations 3:19-22: “I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. I will remember them and my soul is downcast within me, yet this I call to mind and therefore, I have hope: Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed for his compassions never fail.”
I’m in love with this tattoo. I want it.
If I could choose to have any job title, it would be culinary cartographer.
Let’s say I invite you to lunch. You’ve never been to my house so you ask for directions. I fax you a very precise list of instructions designed to get you where you’re going. Distances are calculated to the tenth of a mile and landmarks are described in Proustian detail. You arrive without a hitch.
But do you know where you are? If a tree had fallen in the road or a road suddenly closed, would you know what to do? Unless you have a global positioning system in your pocket, I’m eating lunch alone.
If only I’d sent you a map instead.
This is what’s wrong with recipes. Sure, they can get us where we’re going, but that doesn’t mean we know where we are when we get there. And it would be a real shame to make it all the way to a souffle without realizing that scrambled eggs are just over the next hill and meringue’s just around the corner.
"It hasn’t been easy so far, and won’t be. But, a Haitian proverb says deye mon gen mon, which means “behind mountains, there are mountains.”