Pathologically optimistic

It's Tews' day and the Weatherfeather has sent a Xerox of yesterday's lovely Summer day into this morning's mailbox:

The beginning is always today. – Mary Wollstonecraft.

Orson Welles' was born on this date in 1914 Kenosha, Wisconsin .

And in 1865 on this day, Sigmund Freud was born. The originator of psychotherapy was born in Freiburg, Moravia (now part of the Czech Republic).

“Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.” – attributed to Freud

It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life. – Randall Jarrell, who's birth day was today in 1914 in Nashville, Tennessee

A few things likely to sap our intelligence: sleep deprivation; movies and TV shows crammed with clichés; people who automatically agree with everything we say and do. – Rob Brezsney

The pathologically optimistic are suspicious of a poem’s reluctance to sing along. But maybe useless is useful in a world blind to its own impermanence. Anger is probably the only reliable substitute for inspiration, and given what’s happening to this country, everyone should be sublimely inspired.” – John Herschel