Daily Signet

What is like Richards, Missouri, filled with riches –if you see? It helps if you’re very, very poor, because then you don’t get held up on the bits and pieces of a populist day with expectations also populist. You end up like nobody else and expecting nothing. But come the first beauty, the first joy, the first lovely love, the first dogwood in bloom, the first stream flowing through a pecan grove, the first real fireplace there to heat the house and light your reading, the first real and human friend—and or young—to be close to, to take you shopping in Nevada or in Ft. Scott with twenty-five cents to spend. Nothing more rich there and nothing costing more than twenty-five cents and all the rest costing nothing. Giving everything. 

William Boast, from Seminalia: The Omnific Journey

On This Day…

William Wadsworth Longfellow born in 1807 in Portland, Maine, died 1882: professor and poet. Works: Paul Revere’s Ride, Song of Hiawatha, Evangeline
Quotes: “The best thing you can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.” “In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.”