#if my best-laid schemes go awry today I'll remind myself

[mr-craig]

“Our own ambitions and tasks that we set for ourselves, the frame-work we attempt to impose upon the world is no more than a shadow of a tree cast across the snow. It will change as the sun moves, be swallowed in the night, sway with the wind and when the smooth snow vanishes, it will lie distorted upon the uneven earth. But the tree continues to be.”

~ Kettricken, from Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb (1996)