“My God, so gently life begins again today,
as yesterday and so many times before.
Like these butterflies, like these laborers,
like these sun devouring cicadas
and these blackbirds hidden in the cold dark leaves,
let me, oh my God, continue to live my life
as simply as possible.”
Francis Jammes, French poet (1868 – 1938), born on this day
Chorlton Unitarians 