Thanksgiving, Look to this Day

Haven't posted in a few days. Here are some words to celebrate Thanksgiving. The first time I heard this poem was when my mother recited it to the boys and I on a long ride home from a hockey game. It was almost dinnertime, we were tired and stuck in traffic and these beautiful words just lifted us all up.

Look to this day
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course
Lie all the verities and realities of your existence.
The bliss of growth,
The glory of action,
The splendour of achievement
Are but experiences of time.

For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow is only a vision;
And today well-lived, makes
Yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Look well therefore to this day.

Kalidasa