Happy Friday, Chalkheads. We have reached the last weekend of September. Hard to believe the month is nearly gone, but here we are.
Alea iacta est.
The die is cast.
That is your Latin lesson for the day. Julius Caesar said it as he crossed the Rubicon, knowing there was no going back. The meaning holds for us today. What is done is done and the past cannot be cured.
Don’t spend your hours staring backward. Old grudges, old failures, old losses, they don’t deserve to live rent-free in your head. All they do is steal the daylight from what we still have.
What we have is a stretch of years ahead, that no one knows the length of. Push into them with your eyes open and your feet forward. Don’t let yesterday’s shadows drag down tomorrow’s promise.
Tonight, the sun will set at 6:41, the long September shadows stretch into the supper hour. Enjoy them while you can. Soon enough, the days will shrink, and the dark will arrive early. That is life’s clock, ticking steady, reminding us to savor the light we are given.
Make this weekend count.
