Orts #854

Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day
who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in.
Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit
to be cumbered with your old nonsense.

This new day is too dear,
with its hopes and invitations,
to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

     — Ralph Waldo Emerson



The wind is a wild horse
Kicking the clouds
Tearing the leaves
Off of their boughs.
A swish of his tail
And your hat is gone
A nod of his head
And your hair is undone.

     — JAT


. . . on the internet, it feels as if images have the power to storm into our consciousness and start rearranging the furniture. . . . It seems impossible, looking back at a photograph from President Trump’s inauguration, that Barack Obama was actually president of the United States earlier this year.

    — Amanda Hess, in the introductory essay to the NYT "The Year in Pictures 2017"
http://nyti.ms/2kqLK4q