It’s not easy to establish priorities in life. Most of life is spent needing to do everything at once. And that’s impossible. At least it is impossible to do them all at the same level of artistry all the time. There are simply some things worth doing that at some times are worth doing poorly. Sometimes the soufflé doesn’t come out as raised as we would like it, but it is food on the table and that is all that matters for now.
The ability to deal with failure, with doing some things well enough without having to do them compulsively, is a great gift.
— Joan Chittister, Between the Dark and the Daylight, p. 58
Photo: Burg Rheinfels, Germany, April 2003