Welcome to the Quote of the Week! Did you know that April is National Poetry Month? (I just found out!) How about we feature poems this month for the Quote of the Week? The first featured poem is You Reading This, Be Ready by William Stafford. Being attentive to the present moment is the theme. Enjoy!
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You Reading This, Be Ready

Starting here, what do you want to remember?

How sunlight creeps along a shining floor?

What scent of old wood hovers, what softened

sound from outside fills the air?

Will you ever bring a better gift for the world

than the breathing respect that you carry

wherever you go right now? Are you waiting

for time to show you some better thoughts?

When you turn around, starting here, lift this

new glimpse that you found; carry into evening

all that you want from this day. This interval you spent

reading or hearing this, keep it for life -

What can anyone give you greater than now,

starting here, right in this room, when you turn around?

William Stafford

(1914-1993)

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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit."

William James

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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!!!!