<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459963" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Rainy Day Enjoyed</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Waking this morning is unhurried, even slow –<br>the weather is saying something to the body.<br>The forecast for the day, it seems, is rain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Time, then, for that ease of human living –<br>a day of light and measured pleasures, <br>to be indulged in, not too briefly, <br>not too long; to love each thing at home within itself; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">open all the windows, and perhaps the doors –<br>let in that rain-washed air, conditioned, cool, <br>be inside and yet outside; it once was said<br>that rain comes only after sacrifice; <br>this rain is holy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Idly open a drawer not opened for some time; <br>find there a children’s toy or game; <br>live for some minutes as a child again, <br>smelling rain as you once smelled it, <br>full of the promise of a lifetime not yet lived.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Be that child again, in this loving house; <br>love this rainy day as children do, <br>living life the way it’s offered; all<br>too present to need future dreams; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">let the golden present sift gently through your fingers, <br>you, unhurried, loving life<br>as it now, today, loves you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459963" data-title="A Rainy Day Enjoyed de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Waking this morning is unhurried, even slow – the weather is saying something to the body. The forecast for the day, it seems, is rain. Time, then, for that ease of human living – a day of light and measured pleasures, to be indulged in, not..."></div> </div> </div>

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