13 November 2026

Cadfael on the importance of small things

I am slowly working through the entire canon of Ellis Peters’s Brother Cadfael novels. At the moment, I am nearing the end of Book 11, An Excellent Mystery. At one point, it occurs to Cadfael that

Happiness . . . consists in small things, not in great. It is the small things we remember, when time and mortality close in, and by small landmarks we may make our way at last humbly into another world.


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Cadfael on the importance of small things

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