Each day is a chance for a new start. Today I wish to reflect on all the amazing things I’ve been blessed with: firstly and most important, I have a beautiful, amazing family that brings me no end of joy and laughter. We have everything we need. I get to work as an educator and try to help others. I have so many lifelong friends that are like an extended family to me. Every day is a blessing and I’m so lucky to live the life I do, which is so full of outstanding people.

As I get older, I think that perhaps we need to start each day recounting such blessings and being grateful for them. Times may be difficult, but many have lived through such times, and a shift in perspective may help us weather this and one day come out for the better. So I wish anyone reading this, no matter what your road, all the best, and may your days be full of happiness and joy.

“i thank You God for most this amazing day”

e.e. cummings, 1950

i thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun’s birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any—lifted from the no
of all nothing—human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)