Every day

Well said.

“Write it on your heart
that every day
is the best day of the year.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote of the Week

What I don’t know about Ralph Waldo Emerson could fill a book. But here are some things I learned just today.

  • His friends called him Waldo. I love a good goes-by-their-middle name.

  • He was an abolitionist who believed that the democratic process was the route America should take in that direction.

  • Which made me wonder if he was a pacifist — and the answer is, “It’s complicated.” He was a philosopher so he had a whole lecture on the topic of war. In a nutshell, we ain’t done with war yet. Sadly.

Because he was verbose, most of what we know about him has been boiled down to one-liners. Like this quote of the week. Perhaps I should put Self-Reliance on my to-be-read list.

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