Looking at the Stars

The main function of a journal is to help us set our sights high - as high as we can see or dream or feel. If we don't. then then we risk the loss of idealism: the degeneration of our ambitions and goals from lofty to prosaic to venal. We must constantly fight this loss: we must live out our values; we must see the heroism of our neighbors; and when we're stuck in traffic on the way to work, we must see eternity in the sunrise, and remember that that is where we are really headed.