“We confess to being fools and wish that we were more so,” she wrote in an editorial for the Catholic Worker in 1946. “What we would like to do is change the world—make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe and shelter themselves as God intended them to do.”4 If we should choose to live so foolishly like Jesus, we will be rewarded not so much with earthly pleasures but with the imagination like Dorothy had to hope another world could be possible. That we can live simply, justly, generously, and most of all gratefully: both for the blessings of our money and for the blessings of our
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