Doing something feels good, just the doing of it.

As my first assignment of Kamana One I wrote a note to a man who had learned to hear the birds, but then was discouraged that he could not tell them apart.

The words that I would tell him are now my bookmark, and I am to read them to myself each day as I open the book and discover what delicious assignment awaits me. It is a fine way to encourage myself, to reward myself for each day's work. To remind myself that even though the road ahead is long, I am further ahead today than I was yesterday, and that the journey is the thing.

My words are not as eloquent as Tennyson, and I will keep them to myself, and thus give them the power of Secret Words.

Therefore here are some far more eloquent than mine, though perhaps the sentiment is the same.


"We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. "

Ulysses, Alfred Lord Tennyson