The Little Ways That Encourage Good Fortune — William Stafford
Larry Robinson
Lrobpoet at sonic.net
Thu Feb 5 07:33:52 PST 2015
The Little Ways That Encourage Good Fortune
Wisdom is having things right in your life
and knowing why.
If you do not have things right in your life
you will be overwhelmed:
you may be heroic, but you will not be wise.
If you have things right in your life
but do not know why,
you are just lucky, and you will not move
in the little ways that encourage good fortune.
The saddest are those not right in their lives
who are acting to make things right for others:
they act only from the self -
and that self will never be right:
no luck, no help, no wisdom.
- William Stafford
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