There's Treasure Everywhere!

Hobbes: Why are you digging a hole?
Calvin: I'm looking for buried treasure!
Hobbes: What have you found?
Calvin: A few dirty rocks, a weird root, and some disgusting grubs.
Hobbes: On your first try??
Calvin: There's treasure everywhere!

It's a Magical World by Bill Watterson



"There's treasure everywhere!" Thank you Calvin for your insurmountable optimism. I'm trying to take this mantra to heart in my day-to-day life. To find the good, the light, God's hand in each and every experience. To place all focus away from the self is the foundation of humility.

This has inspired another tattoo idea: the image of Calvin's head sticking out of a hole with shovel in hand exclaiming: "There's treasure everywhere!"


"My lungs had found their voice
And what was once routine
Was now a perfect joy"
Faust, Midas, and Myself by Switchfoot

"The Enemy wants him, in the end, to be so free from any bias in his own favour that he can rejoice in his own talents as frankly and gratefully as in his neighbour's talents - or in a sunrise, an elephant, or a waterfall. He wants each man, in the long run, to be able to recognise all creatures (even himself) as glorious and excellent things."
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis