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Today it is a pleasure to share selections from “Recreation” in “The Tablets” by Amos Bronson Alcott (vegan), in which he explains why we need to remain deeply attuned to nature so it can restore and replenish our vital energy. He also encourages us to choose work that suits our mental and physical natures, nurturing a sense of inner harmony and wholeness. RECREATION “Thou who would know the things that be, Bathe thy heart in the sunrise red, Till its stains of earthly dross are fled.” Goethe. The Fountains “[…] Let the days deify the days, the work the workman, giving the joyous task that leaves pleasant memories behind, and ennobles in the performance: Tasked days Above delays; Hours that borrow Speed of the morrow, Light from sorrow: Business bate not, Want nor wait not, Doubt nor date not; Life from limb forbid to sever, Recreate in rapt endeavor. We come as a muse to our toil and find amusement in it; to a taskmaster whose company never tires. It is life, the partaking of immortality. A day lived so glorifies all moments afterward. Long postponed, perhaps, the hours wearisome, till broke this immortal morning with engagements that time can complete never, nor compel, and whose importunity outlasts the hours. Sleep, too, having the keys of life in its keeping. How we rise from its delectable divinations with eyes sovereign and anointed for the day’s occupations. All our powers are touched with flame, all things are possible. But last night, the world had come to an end; the floods ebbed low, as if the fates were reversing the torch. How we blazed all the morning, to be cinders yesternight. Then came the GOD to re-kindle our faded embers, the Phoenix wings her way to meet the rising dawn and embrace the young world once more. […]”
