“Si je n’y suis [en la grâce de Dieu], Dieu m’y mette; et, si j’y suis, Dieu m’y tienne! Je serais le plus dolente de monde si je savais ne pas être en la grâce de Dieu”
— Jeanne d’Arc
Today’s Feast Days
14 December
…lessons learned from an experience apply to that experience, not experience generically. We always repeat out mistakes. Sometimes they turn out correctly.
Ned Rorem (1923–2022)
American composer and diarist
attributed to Denise Bourdet—The Later Diaries (1974)