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Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on yesterdays.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
This is for Stephen. And anyone else who had a melancholy day today.
For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next year’s words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
~T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding”
American-born English poet, wrote the best-known masterpieces of the modern movement including ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’, ‘The Wasteland’, ‘Gerontion’, and ‘Ash Wednesday’. Renounced his American citizenship to become a British citizen saying that “My mind may be American but my heart it British.”
Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON, Letter to Hester Mulso, Sept. 30, 1753 This is one of my very favorite thoughts about love; I stumbled across it today unexpectedly and it made me smile.
The Road goes ever on and on, down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone, and I must follow if I can.
Pursuing it with eager feet, until it joins some larger way.
Where many paths and errands meet; And whither than? I cannot say.
J.R.R. Tolkien
“There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.”
James Cabell, American Fantasy Fiction Author popular in the 1920′s
This was NEVER something that was on my bucket list…until I found out that I lived an hour from the highest jump in the world. After knowing that how could I pass up the chance?!
It was not scary until my toes were hanging off the edge of a building and my bungy professional tucked my chin and asked if I was ready. I shook my head ‘No’ and he pushed me right off the platform! Guess that’s one way to get over the fear.
And now that I’ve felt the rush I will be going again and again. Maybe backwards, maybe without my feet bound, maybe both…because once you jump 3 times, the 4th one is free!!
Bai wen bu ru yi jian.
(Seeing it once is better than being told 100 times)
– Zhou Chongguo
Han Dynasty
I love China! I am all moved into my apartment at my school. We start classes on September 1st and have a few days to ourselves to get acquainted to the area and to visit the other school districts where my friends are living.
Chinese food is fantastic except that they keep feeding you and it is very rude to refuse so I have not been hungry at all since I’ve been here. Yesterday my contact teach (the teacher who helps me get to know the other teachers and my schedule) took me to dinner and we had 6 courses. Lots of dumplings and noodles and vegetables! I need to find the street food near my area though because things are much more expensive here than in Beijing.
Tonight we are going out for food and drinks in a district called Futian. My district is Nanshan and I am in the Sheko part of the city. My Chinese is getting much better. I am looking forward to starting our classes in September.
Maybe I will be able to speak before I have to travel too far, although I am able to use the bus system and subway just fine so far.
More next time I better get out and meet the group! Missing you all.
“For I know the plans I have for you,
Declares the Lord,
Plans to prosper you,
And not to harm you.
Plans to give you hope,
And a future.”
Jeremiah 29:11
