This day is all we’ve got, my Friends — one day composed of thousands of independent & fully vibrant moments; thousands of glimmering instants of potential glory & possible Meaning; millions of chances to choose between two onerous opposites — on the one side, the still far-too-rare honoring of the Great Gift that is our conscious life (by choosing to transcend apathy & instinct to Care for others beyond the boundaries of personal safety or selfish comfort), and on the other, the still all-too-common drone of self-centered patterns and routines and habits — the still far-too-common failure of seeking ease & pleasure instead of focusing on what needs repairing and then going about making those repairs; of noticing how the system is set up to oppress the many for the benefit of the few and then going about reversing those fortunes; of seeing who is being tormented & imprisoned & abused and then going about bringing those victims an equal measure of Justice & Peace.

 

This day is all we’ve got, my Friends – our one and only guaranteed opportunity to make a Meaning-full difference in this still-far-too-meaningless life … This day is all we’ve truly got … so let’s get out there and make it a Good One!

“Unbeing dead isn’t the same as being Alive.” ~ e.e. cummings

 

“Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved
and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where.
Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save
time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true
freedom, a good practical sort of immortality” ~ John Muir

 

“We must not listen to those who advise us ‘being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts’ but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, being small in bulk, yet much more in its power and honor surpasses all else” ~ Aristotle

 

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