My first thought this morning

Once the haze left-over from dreamland had burned off, these words echoed in the back of my mind.

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 of love and wings: and of the gay

great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing 

breathing any -- lifted from the no 

of allnothing -- human merely being 

doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and

now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

- e.e. cummings

So, even though I have a head-cold and I feel like I'm suffocating (be it from the inversion or the stopped-up bronchials), I knew today couldn't be all that bad.