saint adelaide

"The life of St. Adelaide is so extraordinary that it could be the subject

for a medieval illumination. She was not the kind of saint who lives in a

convent in the recollected life of a cloister. Rather, she is the heroine

who has great adventures and passes through the most difficult dangers. She

was not the kind of person whose ideal is to live in retirement. To the

contrary, she saw in the risk, in the uncertainty, in the fight for the

cause of her legitimate rights, the reason for her life. For her this was

the salt of life that gave it flavor. We can imagine Queen Adelaide, a saint with the innocence of the dove and the astuteness of the serpent."

time

they say time changes everything, but i think it's more that we change with time. so many people say they've never changed - that they're still the same as they were "x" amount of time ago. for so many, that's a sad reality. do they grasp the true power of those words when they speak them? "i'll never change" is equivocal to stating that you'll never evolve, never grow past what you've been or your current state. never changing means you'll live on a giant plateau for the rest of your life, never able to go anywhere but down. then, on the other hand...there's the people who lost it all in the pursuit of molding themselves to fit someone else's ideal. whether it be for monetary or personal gain... it's fine to search after things that you believe will give your life meaning, but do they really give your life meaning? or is your life defined by the meaning you give to things?