came across this poem, one of my favorites, i have kept and read many times over the years. i looked up the author on my computer and find that this is part of a letter written to a friend.
it is so beautiful that i am amazed, but not surprised, that it is still around after almost five hundred years.
but there is much, very much that while i cannot give it, you can take.
no peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present instant. take peace!
the gloom of the world is but a shadow. behind it, yet within reach, is joy.
life is so generous a giver, but we, 