Thirty Days hath September...

“Thirty days hath September,

April, June and November

All the rest have thirty-one……..”

A childhood rhyme for learning the days in the months of the year. Now, decades later, I still recite that phrase as I did tonight. It’s really a pretty little phrase with it’s old English ‘hath’; a word now obsolete, unless one wants to sound rather old fashioned, or unless one has difficulty remembering how many days are in March!

“I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, 

and I have not found any books so sensible since.”

~ G.K.Chesterton

Before the Green

Streets were dusty brown

Ice melted and gone

A breath of calm fell

for winter’s farewell

“Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.”

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life Each Day

“Things you want to get right before it’s too late”……..a line from the book Tuesday’s with Morrie by Mitch Albom. I was perusing this little book to jog my mind tonight. Settled into the quiet of the evening, I wondered what things I want to get right. Nothing that is long past, because, as we all know, the past can't be changed, but as my life as it is today can be. I have found myself wandering into the realm of distant future seeing a slow decline of health ~ mental and physical. When I notice these worrying signs, the air is my sounding board. Aloud I say: ‘Today is the day I am in, I am healthy today, I can maintain my health today, I have only today.’ So when I read that line ‘things you want to get right’ it is my thoughts, my self-talk that I need to get right. I don’t discount the slip and slide of life’s currents and my reaction to them, but moving in balance, I can enjoy my family and friends and my life each day.

“You live and then you die, I thought. It’s good to have some good times.”

~ Natalie Goldberg, The Great Failure: 

A Bartender, A Monk and My Unlikely Path to Truth