“…Dorthy DAY ..was eight years old, growing up in Oakland California, when the 1906 earthquake devastated San Fransisco. She stood on the street watching for the next few days as the people in Oakland helped each other and helped the people of San Francisco who were coming across the bay in boats.

With the clear eyes of a child, she was captivated. Somehow, though this was not the ordinary pattern of ordinary days, they’d know in their being how to do this all along,

Dorthy Day gave voice to a question, which she then lived into across the trajectory of her own very human, messy, adventurous life: Why can’t we live this way all the time?”

– from “Becoming Wise – An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living ” by Krista Tippett