HAPPY FIRST OF FEBRUARY - HAVE A GREAT DAY!

Look at all the sunshine!  I see several walks in our future.  Still a little chilly but we will wrap up properly.

This cute little bear is another picture from Pinterest.  It was made with AI.  I paired it with the poem below not for any other reason than that I liked the bear.  

For each new morning with its light, 

for rest and shelter of the 

night, for health and food, for 

love and friends, for everything 

thy goodness sends.  I awoke this

morning with devout 

thanksgiving for my friends, the 

old and new.

~Ralf Waldo Emerson~

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and critical thinking, as well as a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society and conformity. Friedrich Nietzsche considered him "the most gifted of the Americans.”