LIFE IS ENLIGHTENMENT

Today and Today and Today

In the moment

Susannah MacKinnie
Appalachian Tales and Trails
1 min readAug 5, 2022

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Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

Dr. Seuss

Stating the obvious, today is now.
Now is today is also true.
Even more obvious, every day
I am splendiferous me, and I am not you.

Chop wood, carry water.

The wise man pontificates.
Live for today.

George Santayana said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

Crow Girl in the blue sky
Catching the drifts but wary-eyed
Ready to flee, ready to fly
Beneath the dreamy surface

The fish send today’s memo
Of swirling fins and waving tails
“He said he’d send the limo
if you want to come back home”

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
The Obnoxious Optimist

Crow Girl shakes her head, “And they say I am a birdbrain,” and flies off.

Live every day as if it were your last because someday you’re going to be right. Muhammad Ali

The Greatest was a philosopher of the real world.

Thanks to Carolyn Hastings for suggesting my current mantra, Today is now, and now is today, for a twittle.

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