A Clean Desk for the New Year

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

That part about ‘no doubt blunders crept in’ makes me laugh. My own life is ripe with daily blunders, no doubt about it. Each day a lesson of forgiveness, letting go, and the inevitable moving on and wi...