Pastoral Resources

When you do not know how to focus your thoughts effectively, they can become scattered, miscellaneous, and fixated on 'stuff'-negative notions, toxic relationships, and situations from the past.

All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed.

Miscellaneous is always the largest category.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.