I have nothing other than the writing of others today. Just a couple of shopping days until Christmas, and my chickens aren’t laying eggs. However, I am still rather optimistic about the season, and honestly, in a good mood this morning. I like all the quotes below, but for myself and today, I choose Number 3. But, if you can, click on the Jack Carr quote and read about Jim Harrison. I have not read any of his work, but I probably should.
Typically, Lunch Box Quotes are notes I include in the kids’ lunches every day. Number 1 gets a text, but 2-4 get a handwritten napkin. But this week, with finals for the High School, everything is wonky. Some days they are in school, some days they get out early. Every day is different.
Visual credits to: Photo by Andy Anderson @JackCarrUSA @Manifest_Lord @athenaumbc
Quotes:
1. “You’re getting close. That’s why it’s tough.” – General Wisdom
2. “Never make the mistake of assuming the person of peace is unskilled at war.” – Zambian rapper and singer, Chef 187
3. “In a life properly lived, you’re a river. You touch things lightly or deeply; you move along because life herself moves, and you can’t stop it; you can’t figure out a banal game plan applicable to all situations; you just have to go with the ‘beingness’ of life.” – Jim Harrison
4. “A large part of writing is a recognition factor, to have read enough to know what good writing is.” – Jim Harrison
Bonus Quote: “When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.” – G. K. Chesterton
Sources:
“Late in October in 1914 three brothers rode from Choteau, Montana, to Calgary in Alberta to enlist in the Great War…” And so begins Jim Harrison’s classic novella, Legends of the Fall. Hauntingly beautiful in its prose and scope, Legends would forever distinguish Harrison as a… pic.twitter.com/FVvQsOg2GC
— Jack Carr (@JackCarrUSA) December 12, 2025
— Manifest_Lord (@Manifest_Lord) November 29, 2025
“When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.”
— G. K. Chesterton pic.twitter.com/PHKcL82X8c
— Athenaeum Book Club (@athenaeumbc) December 12, 2025