Resolution

December 31, 2014

Near Cole’s Woods

As I was driving home from work on the afternoon of New Year’s Eve,
a list of possible resolutions was going through my head.
You know, all the usual ones - 

lose weight, 

exercise more,

try new things, 

manage stress better, 

etc. etc.
It's usually a pretty big list !

Where should I even start ?
Then I saw a sign - 
one that seemed to roll them all up into one.

The one that could best change my life:

 Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. 

    HDT Journal, September 7, 1851

Aeschylus had a clear eye
   for the commonest things.
    HDT Journal, January 29, 1840

The meaning I picked,
the one that changed my life:
Overcome fear, behold wonder.
   Aeschylus (525-456 BC), Greek tragic dramatist