Have you heard a friend say, “I’m so busy, I can’t keep up and get everything done”?   Often we hear a retiree say, “I don’t know how I had time to work!”

Many of us did “slow down” during the pandemic and have yet to find the energy to “get started again!”  Others kept going “full speed ahead” and thus maybe didn’t have or didn’t take the opportunity to read the book put aside for months, to clean out the clutter of their lives, or to just relax.

Imagine being a poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, critic, natural philosopher, diplomat, and civil servant all in one life time.  Such was the life of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  In one of his famous quotes, he wrote:

A person should hear a little music, read a little poetry and see a fine picture every day in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

My prayer for you is a little music, a little poetry, and a little beauty to enrich your soul.                                    

Bill Wilds