I would have liked to have met Ralph Waldo Emerson at a local coffee shop just to get to know him a little better. I quote his work often, especially his poem, "What is Success?" and have carried around several of his pieces in my wallet until the paper became so soft that it actually started to dissintegrate. Today seemed like a great day to share one of his less popular pieces in Upside Living.

"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,
And with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
This day is all that is good and fair.
It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations,
To waste a moment on the yesterdays."