For You There'll Always Be the Gift of Beauty

September 7, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is work in honor of Labor Day, which was celebrated on September 2.

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A number poem to an adolescent intending to become an artist:

For you there’ll always be the gift of beauty

In everything you hear or see or do --

Feelings captured in a word or scene,

The imagined face that seems to more than seem,

Each lucid sky that seems more blue than blue,

Each bit of grace you share, the artist’s duty,

Needing to give life to more than you.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Work

9/2: Unions Are a Gift of Our Own Giving

9/3: Let Unions Bear Some Blame for Their Demise

9/4: Life for Most of Us Has Not Improved

9/5: For You, Who Do Such Good, There Should Be Joy

9/6: Just Think About Desire and Circumstance

9/7: For You There’ll Always Be the Gift of Beauty