Write it on your heart
That every day is the best day of the year.
He is rich who owns the day,
and no one owns the day
who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.
who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.
Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in.
Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day;
Begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit
to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
This new day is too dear,
with its hopes and invitations,
to waste a moment on the yesterdays.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882)
American essayist,lecturer. philosopher, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.
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Michele Savikko 1972 Corvallis Oregon (Photo by Larry Bilyeu) |
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Of personal interest:
I taught two college classes as an undergraduate at Oregon State University in the Spring of 1972. (English Literature and Modern Poetry]. Two students that Professor Astro had taught over the course of our 4 years of studies there. My counterpart taught a class or (that i knew of)
Thank you Professor Richard Astro of Corvallis OR and Drexel University (Professor Emeritus) for your faith and trust in me! What great fun and an excellent teaching opportunity! I loved teaching and knew that even though I was a shy young woman from Alaska that I was also a knowledgeable and creative teacher.
He offered me a full time job helping him with his next book on writer, John Steinbeck as a research assistant. Telling me that one of the to brightest students hed ever had the privilege of teaching. The other was a young man. I was still very young and I was getting married in Alaska that summer and turned that amazing offer down. Primarily brcause it involved being the ghost writer of a subject and a baseball play id never heard. The goal was supposed to be a comparison of the life of the baseball player and John Seinback. It seemed like an improbable if not impossible dream. At the time and for the many decades that followed, it was One of my bigger regrets!
He was the West Coast expert on Steinbeck and I'd taken his classes and loved Steimbeck and his books. Just as I loved the poetry of William Blake...the other writer i had studied under Dr. Astro. The paper i wrote as my final term pa O er in any of Dr. Astros classes "only" received an A- yet he told me as he handed my graded copy to ne, that it was "the finest paper he'd ever read turned to him during his past decades of teaching. Just knowing that and getting to learn all that i fid as an undergraduste and thus single term paper was suddenly such high praise that it was enough. I was enough and i glowed with that knowledge. Great great educational experiences. 6 months of teaching @ $40.00/month plus my year of also student teaching at Corvallis High. Mass Media (a class that had never been taught by anyine including the teavher who been assigned it and oass oof to me, Reading for Enjoyment (who wouldnt a free reading period? And Mythology. My Mythology class had no parameter as to Greek or Roman or Modern. I made it all three! And I managed to include the mythological poetry of William Blake also with my artistic depiction of his drawings as well as his poetry! Those were the days, my friend I truly thought theyd never end. But they were a wonderful path not chosen as poet Robert Frost has written. 💜
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