Blessed be you. Blessed be you for being alive on Earth. Blessed be you for aspiring. Blessed be you for attaining and for even not attaining. What is wonderful is that you venture forth. Without armor, you venture forth into the big world, and you make your way in it.

Each day you pull up the window shades of the day, and each night you close them. You are like the rising sun, and you are like the setting sun. You bring days into action. You run through a day, or you pause, or you tiptoe. You are the one who runs through a day the way a river runs through the land.

You are a pioneer. You are much more a pioneer than a settler.

Each day there is a new terrain to run through. You venture forth, you give each hour its time of day. You open the curtain of each moment of the day. You are the revealer of the day.

Each day is a like a book you read, or a chapter, or a prologue, or an epilogue. Or each day is like a deck of cards that you peel open to see what the cards say.

You are a diviner of each day.

You hold each day in your hands. And you ruffle through the day.

May your day be blessed. May you cherish it, this never-before-given-day of today. It is your slate to draw on. It is your part of the masterpiece that is being created on Earth today. And you contribute to its creation without a backward glance, for you are ever moving forward into this landscape of life. You turn the kaleidoscope of the day the way a captain of the seas turns his telescope to see a far-off star.

The star the captain sees is blinking brightly at the captain who made an overture to the blinking star.

Each of you is a star-gazer like Galileo. Each of you makes new discoveries about the stars and life and the divine threshold of discovery that you are on. You are on the verge of great discovery. You are about to discover yourself. You are about to discover yourself in the mundane world and beyond. You are the discoverer of life on Earth. You set the course of study, and you find out what it is you have set as you go along. You may intend to learn one thing and find you learn another that what was on your mind all the time.

What do you want to find out? Keep walking, and find it. By and large, you do find what you are looking for. Look far and near until you do find it. It may be right under your shoe now.

This is a day never before seen and never before opened, and now you open it. You open it for all the world to see. You turn the key of the world, and you usher it in. You create daybreak.

And, at night, you put the day to bed, and night awakes. The stars come out. Night clubs open up. Some people sleep, and some people wake.

Babies are born, and cats knock over garbage cans in the alley. The moon is big or small. Wynken, Blynken and Nod sail off on their wooden shoe, sail off on a river of crystal light into a sea of dew. What is more probable than that when you are alive on Earth and can sail on anything and reach the white moon and take it home, even as it follows you?