I'd Like to Add Some Beauty to Life

“I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.” 
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams


Yes, that is what I'd like to do.
I have been working...let me rephrase that...I have been trying to work on my senior project. The only issue is that I don't really know what I am doing.
I am writing about teaching, and literature...basing my whole paper on the C.S. Lewis quote, "The task of the modern educator is not to tear down jungles but to culivate deserts."
I think Lewis and Anne would have gotten along well.
A lot of the reason that I want to be a teacher is because of Anne. I would indeed "like to add some beauty to life." I suppose Lewis was more on the wanting people to KNOW more, but still...I want to walk away having left "some little joy or happy thought."
What if we all lived trying to do that? I think that would be just lovely:). Now, I suppose I am just a little book nerd who likes to live in the land of faries, but think if you paired that goal with the "nobelist ambition." That is a teacher that I would like to have.
That is the teacher that I would like to be. 
I think it is the lovely fall weather and spending time with some wonderful friends...because even though the load of work that I have to do is rather daunting, I am OK for right now. I am just fine sitting and thinking about the good. 
I think sometime we all need to stop and think about those good things. The "simple things" as my friend Sarah would say. 


"We loved you so much that we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God but our lives as well, because you had become so dear to us." -1 Thessalonians 2:8