Up Again, Old Heart!

~ Happy First Day of Spring! ~

Late Vernal Equinox Sunrise
through the southern magnolia in my front yard

A Series of Blessings
for a Day of New Beginnings

Back in grad school days, I had each of the following
passages written out on an index card and taped up
inside my library carrel for focus and inspiration:
Emerson: "We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! — it seems to say, — there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power." *

Coleridge: "The Imagination, then, I consider either as primary, or secondary. The primary Imagination I hold to be the living Power and prime Agent of all human Perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM."

Juvenal: "Whatever woman do -- their longing, their fears, their angers, their pleasures, their delights,their comings and goings -- these form the medley of my little book."

Wordsworth: "Imagination, which, in truth, Is but another name for absolute power."

~ Half light ~ half dark ~

P.S.
Southern Magnolia / Winter Solstice

P.P.S.
* A get well wish from Ralph Waldo Emerson,
also from the essay "Experience":
"Life itself is a bubble and a skepticism, and a sleep within a sleep. Grant it, and as much more as they will,--but thou, God's darling! heed thy private dream: thou wilt not be missed in the scorning and skepticism: there are enough of them: stay there in thy closet, and toil, until the rest are agreed what to do about it. Thy sickness, they say, and thy puny habit, require that thou do this or avoid that, but know that thy life is a flitting state, a tent for a night, and do thou, sick or well, finish that stint. Thou art sick, but shalt not be worse, and the universe, which holds thee dear, shall be the better."
More excellent
advice from Emerson:
QK ~ FN ~ KL