A New Day

The last couple weeks have flown by.  The end of school is full of so many activities that I find myself having difficulty accomplishing all that I want to do.  It is a new day and a new beginning.

While sorting through papers that I have kept for a very long time, I came across a poem.  It apparently had deep meaning for me nearly three decades ago.  In reading it again, I found this poem still has great significance for me.  Enjoy!

Finish every day and

be done with it.

You have done what you could.

Some blunders and absurdities

no doubt crept in;

forget them as soon as you can.

Tomorrow is a new day;

begin it well and serenely

and with too high a spirit

to be encumbered with

your old nonsense.

This day is all that is good

and fair.

It is too dear, with its hopes

and invitations,

to waste a moment

on the yesterdays.

Ralph Waldo Emerson