Dorothea “longed for work that would be directly beneficent like the sunshine and the rain."

 --in reference to Dorothea in Middlemarch by George Eliot


Me too. 

So far, I’ve found two activities I can work tirelessly at: Reading fiction and free writing in my journal. Thousands of words go by in evenings that feel short but are in fact long.  But I’ve not yet been able to direct these two efforts—to work my very hardest—at any sort of work that feels beneficent.

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