“Waking up this morning I smile
knowing there are 24 brand new hours before me.
I vow to live fully in each moment,
and look at beings with eyes of compassion.” – Thích Nhất Hạnh

This is your day, my darlings.

Twenty four brand new hours to fill with anything you please. To laugh, to love, to dream to dare; to contemplate those much deeper things, to wonder what ‘riches’ might soon be revealed.

To cherish, to hope…to care. To take on new paths as a fearless explorer.

Life is rather simple, really. Stop giving weight to that which keeps you ‘here’ – struggling to make sense, while missing the gift.

Go on long walks, my darlings – open your heart, your mind, your spirit to the subtlety of new things. Find the good in all living beings – knowing, we are united in our hope for an everlasting inner peace.

Give hope its wings – through words, through thought, through action, through deed. Find the blessing in all those much simpler things.

But above all, my darlings, remember:

Life is far too short, to live in the paling shadow of your dreams.