Day to Day Spontaneous Acts that Hold Society Together

Arnold, my neighbor has been here again. How do I know? A bag of freshly picked asparagus and a half a pone of corn bread left at my back door tell me so. His act of giving these gifts reminds me of this quote by N.K. Humphrey found in Briggs and Peat’s Seven Life Lessons of Chaos:

“Our greatest use of the human creative intelligence is not in art or science but in the day-to-day spontaneous acts by which we hold our society together.”

~ by candeebasford on May 7, 2008.