Enthusiastic Ideas: WordPoints Daybook Series, Volume 1

A Good Word for Every Day of the Year Oh better than the minting Of a gold-crowned king Is the safe-kept memory Of a lovely thing. - Sara Teasdale THE BUSIER WE ARE, THE MORE WE NEED THE THING THAT WINTERTIME WAS MADE FOR: REFLECTION. If we are people with crowded schedules, full of useful work, that is not necessarily a bad thing, but we need to take time for reflection. We need to pause and reconsider our values. We may need to improve our principles. All of us have many riches in the storehouse of memory. And what better time than winter to look back and remember these? The “safe-kept memory of a lovely thing” should not be underestimated as to its value, but rather cherished and nurtured. “Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many,” Charles Dickens wrote, “not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.” Good memories of the past are not the least of our “present blessings.” But reflection is not merely the memory of good things in the past, nor is it