From Sam Baker’s song Pretty World, a reminder, as Ehrmann notes in Desiderata: “With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.”
“Before the sun, before the heat, before we untangle from our sheets, before this summer day unfurls – pretty world”
Which in turn sends me to Genesis 1:1 – “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”
And then, here I am.