Quest For The Lost Gold

Stephanie Rew

“When our genes could not store all the information necessary for survival, we slowly invented them. But then the time came, perhaps ten thousand years ago, when we needed to know more than could conveniently be contained in brains. So we learned to stockpile enormous quantities of information outside our bodies… The warehouse of that memory is called the library.

— Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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Banding together in institutions, whether religious, academic or professional, helps some feel secure and able to look down on the unenlightened. But I’ve clearly learned that the inward quest must become one’s own before it’s any good at all.

— Bud Harris, PhD

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I won’t play being a happy person either, because I’m a lost person. But sometimes, walking down the street, I feel a rush of happiness, and I try not to search for the reason; because if I do, I will check with full ease that I still have reasons for misfortune. Better to humbly accept, those secret gifts.

~ George Luis Borges

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I asked Lightnin’ Hopkins one time what the blues were. And he said, “Well, son, I think they’re a cross between the greens and the yellows.”

- Townes Van Zandt