Many people have commented today that they cannot believe that it is September. The summer was fleeting this year. I managed to have a lake swim once! Between rainy weather and busy home-life it seems that the lazy days of summer evaporated before I noticed. Now it is Labour Day weekend. The evenings are cool, the mornings are misty and the days are shorter. Sigh.
Days like this I need to remember to savour, savour the moment, savour the day, savour the memory. When I was a girl I went to summer camp for a week each summer. It was sponsored by the United Church. We started every morning with the Salutation to the Dawn.
For your Friday reflection, here it is … Happy Labour Day Weekend.
Look to this day!
For it is life, the very life of life,
In its brief course
Lie all the verities and realities of your existence.
The bliss of growth,
The glory of action,
The splendour of beauty,
For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow only a vision,
But today well lived
Makes every yesterday
A dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore, to this day!
Such is the salutation of the dawn. ~Kalidasa
