On An Adventure of Hope

This is what I hope to do. Wouldn't it be marvelous? :)     Note: This post was originally published on my blog, https://lookingupinsong.blogspot.com , 20 May 2012.  

Today I want to share this quote/excerpt from a Sherlock Holmes novel, written by Arthur Conan Doyle. For those who don't know, the books are written from the point of view of Dr. John Watson, Holmes' closest friend. Here 'tis: “What a lovely thing a rose is!" He [Holmes] walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping stalk of a moss-rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green. It was a new phase of his character to me, for I had never before seen him show any keen interest in natural objects. "There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extr...