the little daily dose

Tulip Stair

Queen's House, Greenwich

I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general

but for just so much self knowledge at the moment

as I can bear and use at the moment;

the little daily dose.

C.S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)

Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

a slow train

Train Landscape (1940)

Eric Ravilious

"I find myself perfectly content in a slow train that crawls through green fields stopping at every station. Just because the service is so slow and therefore in most people’s eyes bad, these trains are almost empty — I get through a lot of reading and sometimes say my prayers. A solitary train journey I find quite excellent for this purpose."

C.S. Lewis