Dawn of a new day. Same view, different sky. Still unseasonably warm, but the wind keeps the haze away. We really do live on a beautiful planet.
Thought of the day today is a rather long quote from James Naylor (sometimes spelled Nayler) a Quaker from the 19th century:
"There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in hope to enjoy its own in the end. Its hope is to outlive all wrath and contention, and to weary out all exultation and cruelty, or whatever is of a nature contrary to itself. It sees to the end of all temptations. As it bears no evil in itself, so it conceives none in thought to any other. If it be betrayed, it bears it; for its ground and spring is the mercies and forgiveness of God. Its crown is meekness, its life is everlasting love unfeigned, and it takes its kingdom with entreaty, and keeps it by lowliness of mind. "
I see this spirit in the Manhattan skyline.
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