For Today - Being Here

If we find nothing of interest where we are, we are likely to find little of lasting interest where we wish to go.  - Edwin Way Teale

Wherever I go, I take myself with me.  A blessing and not. 

Edwin Way Teale was a writer and naturalist from the United States.  He also wrote "For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm." 

And he wrote this:

Our minds, as well as our bodies, have need of the out-of-doors.  Our spirits, too, need simple things, elemental things, the sun and the wind and the rain, moonlight and starlight, sunrise and mist and mossy forest trails, the perfumes of dawn and the smell of fresh-turned earth and the ancient music of wind among the trees.

The reading in For Today concludes this morning:  "Through this program, I am regaining the zest and enthusiasm for life that is my birthright."

One day at a time.