I'll never
Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand As is a man were author of himself And knew no other kin. ~ William Shakespeare Happy 4th of July!
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For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape, give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away. ~ Bible, Song of Songs 
Today, I found myself in a field of clover, on a hillside, in the evening sun. I ended up there just because. I felt enjoyment purely for the sake of enjoyment, for the first time in a long time.
It has been a weird adjustment period. I haven't been inspired much lately. Things and people and places in my life are shuffling around, trying to determine what fits and what doesn't. I'm starting to feel like they're finding their balance, but everything is still a little uncertain. I bought a [shiny, awesome, ridiculous] new car. I play in the sun. I do my job and when I'm not doing my job, I'm trying to spend time with the people who matter to me. I'm figuring out who matters to me. I'm trying to see extraordinary things in the ordinary world. I haven't forgotten, I just didn't want to see it for a while. It doesn't mean I'm back. It just means that, today, the ordinary was noteworthy. 
The sunshine of life is made up of very little beams, that are bright all the time.
~ Conrad Potter Aiken 
Changed! There the epitaph of all the years
Was sounded! I am changed too. Let it be. Yet it is sad to know my latest tears Were faithful to a memory, -- not to thee. Nothing is left us! nothing -- save the soul. Yet even the immortal in us alters too. Who is it his old sensations can renew? Slowly the seas are changed... ~Lord Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, The Wanderer  One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.
~ Proverb  Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
~ Og Mandino |
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