Walden Pond

The air is clean and autumnally crisp

The rays of the sun balmily kiss

All that I dare leave exposed

To that undulating wind that whispers hiss.

I sit at the edge of this pristine pond

That was made famous by a man named Thoreau
Feeling like a transcendentalist
Thinking of his Concordian neighbor, one Ralph Waldo.

Serving/Helping Others

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
~Albert Einstein

Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You
don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve...You don't
have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics
to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated
by love
 ~ Martin Luther King Jr

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another
without helping themselves.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

If Friends Were Flowers - I'd Pick You

“The earth laughs in flowers.”

Emerson

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The flowers take the tears of weeping night, and give them to the sun for the day's delight. ~ Joseph Cotter