When you awaken and catch the 4:57 a.m. delivery of the antiquated form of communication being dropped on your driveway, and your excitement builds at realizing the puzzle will be a challenge, it’s important to listen to the words in your head.

I went out early morning to retrieve the newspaper and was treated to the breathtaking view of a clear star-splattered sky. This poem came to mind, particularly the third stanza, and I figured there’s a reason! I share with you again, as I’m certain I have shared this before.

i thank you God for most this amazing

i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun’s birthday;this is the birth
day of life and love and wings:and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any-lifted from the no
of all nothing-human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

eecummings