Come What May...: Yeah, It's That Important Eli

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Yeah, It's That Important Eli

I found this vintage book at the thrift store and I love it. I want to tear it apart and make wall art. Unfortunately, Eli found it also and he loves it more than me. Funny thing...he actually wants to read it. I will hide it better next time.

Raef took this picture, along with this cute video of my two year-old.

This is the remnants of Christmas cookie decorating, lots of sugar frosting on the counter. And here is Eli, helping me clean up. Yeah, it's that important!!!

1 comment:

Cynthia said...: Yep. You've got to let him keep it, how could you resist that adorable, sugar-encrusted face?; January 2, 2011 at 10:18 PM

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Psalm of Life

TELL me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream ! —
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
Life is real ! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal ;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way ;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Find us farther than to-day.
Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.
In the world's broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle !
Be a hero in the strife !
Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant !
Let the dead Past bury its dead !
Act,— act in the living Present !
Heart within, and God o'erhead !
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time ;
Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.
Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate ;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.
-Henry Wordsworth Longfellow