Daily inspiration 4-8-06

[Charlina]

If we all approached each of our days as if they were the last, perhaps we would finally understand that a life well lived is our greates responsibility and our ultimate glory. The prospect of death wouldn't be so frightening. Of course we are a relentlessly hopeful group-that's what makes us human-and who are we not to beleive we can live forever? In many ways we do.
Take the time to savor, like never before, every rise and set of the sun, every phase of every moon, each rain shower and cloudless sky, all the rich and myriad sights and sounds and smells that are ordinary and extraordinary.

Nancy Burke

And if the earthly no longer knows
your name, whisper to the silent
earth:
Im flowing. To the flashing
water say:
I am.

Rainer Maria Rilke