Look to this Day

        Look to this day:

For it is life, the very life of life.

In its brief course

Lie all the verities and realities of your existence

  The bliss of growth

The glory of action,

The splendor of achievemnent

Are but experiences of time.

For yesterday is but a dream

And tomorrow is only a vision;

And today well-lived, makes

Yesterday a dream of happiness

And every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Look well therefore to this day;

Such is the salutation to the ever-new dawn!

Kalidasa

For my high school graduation, the Mixed Chorus sang a musical arrangement of Salutation to the Dawn.

As chorus members had to memorize the lyrics, I have never forgotten the words; I have to look the total verse

up now and then, but I always found the message meaningful.    More than fifty years later, "today well-lived"

is a mantra for living.