Textiles in Distress

So she would trot from activity to activity, from project to scheme, a cheerfulness would radiate from her core, and infect you. She would dream, but she had a Punjabi eye for detail, her thoroughness would overwhelm you. A thoroughness delicately balanced with a rare thoughtfulness, to each person who would visit her she would be equally devastatingly considerate. Again, was it not that early training within the fold which showed up here, there would be no deviation from principles, but firmness would be intermeshed with charm, and charm would be the surrogate for firmness. The policy of the principle is supreme, but we owe it to the cause to convince the others and carry with us the largest possible measure of support, so gestures which do not compromise the principle are in order; control your irritation and impatience, it is a messy world, it is infested by people who are not like you and me, because we want to change this world, because we want to transform these people, we must learn how to be long-suffering, we must learn to keep still in order that we might learn to move fast.