AM Inspiration: Mid-week Simplicity

by Kim, July 29, 2009 at 6:00am

Here are two mid-week meditations on simplicity. The first, by e.e. cummings, that master of deceptively-simple verse, tells us to be glad and young-- attitudes that can be consciously chosen and which cut through a lot of the complications in life. The second is by Emily Dickinson.

you shall above all things be glad and young

by e.e. cummings

SIMPLICITY - How happy is the little stone

BY

Emily Dickinson

How happy is the little stone

That rambles in the road alone,

And doesn't care about careers,

And exigencies never fears;

Whose coat of elemental brown

A passing universe put on;

And independent as the sun,

Associates or glows alone,

Fulfilling absolute decree

In casual simplicity.