Take things as they come with cheerfulness.
Washington Irving on attitude. (The Commonplace Book Project)
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“I endeavor to take things as they come with cheerfulness, and when I cannot get a dinner to suit my taste, I endeavor to get a taste to suit my dinner.”
— Washington Irving, in a letter to his son about having a positive attitude while traveling.
Washington Irving was born today, April 3, in 1783.
I am always fascinated by writers and their stories when they’ve endured through generations. Irving’s two most well-known short stories came from a book called The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle.
The list of movie and television adaptations for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow alone spanks a hundred years — from the beginnings of film.
The most recent is a Fox series called Sleepy Hollow that ran for four seasons starting in 2013…
