Thought for Today ~

Something has become sadly apparent to us.  Hoping that we are missing something.  Are there no Cancer Society volunteer drivers in the Cayuga area?  A friend who has been supportive of the bookshop since the beginning is  unfortunately facing many trips to the city from Cayuga and so far ~ other than ourselves and a couple friends ~ her drivers are coming from Port Colborne, Grimsby and Dunnville.

George Eliot's* At Set of Sun comes to mind.

If you sit down at set of sun
And count the acts that you have done,
     And, counting, find
One self-denying deed, one word
That eased the heart of him who heard --
     One glance most kind,
That fell like sunshine where it went --
Then you may count that day well spent.

But, if, through all the livelong day,
You've cheered no heart, by yea or nay --
     If, through it all
You've nothing done that you can trace
That brought the sunshine to one face--
     No act most small
That helped some soul and nothing cost --
Then count that day as worse than lost.


*Mary Ann Evans, Victorian novelist, journalist, poet (1819 - 1880), used the pen name George Eliot in order that her writing be taken seriously.

[Driver reimbursement information available at www.cancer.ca "Information Driver Centre"