Saturday ~ October 22, 2022

The Winter being over,

In order comes the Spring,

Which doth green herbs discover,

 And cause the birds to sing.

The night also expired,

Then comes the morning bright,

 Which is so much desired,

 By all that love the light.

This may learn

Them that mourn,

 To put their grief to flight: 

The Spring succeedeth Winter,

 And day must follow night.

An Collins, 1640s - 1650s

Thursday ~ October 20, 2011

Believe in yourself when no one else does. No one will believe you can do it until you do, so you have to want your own dreams. Others can want your dreams for you, but you're the only one who can make them happen, and you're the only one who can succeed or fail in reaching them.

Becca Martin, b. 1994

Monday ~ October 17, 2022

 I found one of my best teachers on the boardwalk at Coney Island many years ago. It was December, and I was doing a story about how the homeless suffer in the winter months. He and I sat on the edge of wooden supports, dangling our feet over the side, and he told me about his schedule, panhandling the Boulevard when the summer crowds were gone, sleeping in a church when the temperature went below freezing, hiding from the police amid the Tilt_A-Whirl and the Cyclone and some of the other seasonal rides.