The Navajo teach their children that every morning when the sun comes up,

it’s a brand-new sun.

It’s born each morning, it lives for the duration of one day,

and in the evening it passes on, never to return again.

As soon as the children are old enough to understand,

the adults take them out at dawn and they say,

‘The sun has only one day.

You must live this day in a good way,

so that the sun won’t have wasted precious time.’

Acknowledging the preciousness of each day is a good way to live,

a good way to reconnect with our basic joy ..

~Pema Chödrön

care for the world in this darker season…

inquiry for today~ forget your doubts for awhile…

beauty found….

And if you follow your truth down the road to peace and the affirmation of love,

if you shine like a beacon for all to see,

then the poetry of all the great dreamers and philosophers is yours to manifest in a nation,

a world community, and a Beloved Community that is finally at peace with itself.

~John Lewis