overcome. prevail. not in some national sense of “we shall prevail over [fill-in-the-blank].”
no. this is you. this is about you.
you woke up this morning. you are sitting there, coffee perhaps in hand, and you are alive.
so live. go.
is there somewhere you want to go? somewhere you’d rather be? then go.
tie your shoe laces. buy your plane ticket. pay your fare. and go. and don’t do it out of some sense of patriotic pride, not because your government tells you that you need to get out there and support the economy. do it because this is your life. whether we actively tell them or not, we are volumes of story after story after story, and the most precious literature we have is each other.
so live. do.
is it yellow? is it orange? leave these colors to the trees and the leaves that soon will turn. the only color that matters now is the red of the blood coursing through your living body, the blood that drives the muscles that enable you to get up, get going, get on with your life.
so live. think.
remember that wallowing is not the same as remembering, and there are just too many opportunities to do the former in place of the latter. especially today. this day decked with another crystal blue sky. perhaps the one day where nobody will have to ask the date when writing a letter or signing a check. reflect and learn and turn the calendar page.
so live. love.
not out of respect for some untimely holiday, but because you can. because respect and admiration and consideration can flow like water through a mill wheel. it is taken in, it invigorates and drives, then it is released in kind. be kind.
so live. this is your to-do list.
