Fulfillment Is a Song That One Must Sing

December 1, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is The Gifts of Life, in honor of Thanksgiving, which this year is celebrated on Thursday, November 28.

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A philosophical number poem about the effort needed to sustain one’s gifts:

Fulfillment is a song that one must sing

Or bear the sullen silence of the heart.

Remember: Love of life requires music,

The joy one dances to throughout the day,

Yearning for the gifts one has sustained.

Every gift is one that one must bring

Into one’s daily life with skill and art,

Giver and receiver both, or lose it,

Having lost a few along the way,

Though treasuring still the ones one has retained.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: The Gifts of Life

11/25: Sixty-Seven’s in Her Golden Years

11/26: Forty-Five Is Wiser than Before

11/27: Eleven Embraces Each Breathtaking Day

11/28: There Is No Substitute for Gratitude

11/29: For You the Earth Shall Bring Forth Greater Glory

11/30: Salvation Is a Song That One Can Sing

12/1: Fulfillment Is a Song That One Must Sing