In loving, living memory, John Melançon 1928 – 2007
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if every act were important enough
Fri, 2009/06/05 - 9:06am — Benjamin Melançon
Also from Heidi, this is written longhand (in Dad's sometimes hard to decipher cursive) on Macedonia Cooperative Community / Clarkesville, Ga. / Makers of / Community Playthings letterhead (the intentional community where Dad helped manage the wooden toy and kitchen set shop).
What a precious thing life would be if every act were important enough to require a
religiousspiritual motivation. I can no longer be satisfied to remain silent when ever anyone questions my economic life. Where a person, and how he gets his bread is too important a thing. Just to go along with it is not enough.
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"One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one's greatest efforts."
--quote to Walter Daellenbach, May 31, 1915.