Happy Wednesday! Last week was quite tiring, not exactly sure why. But the result was that I didn’t post my weekly calligraphy example. So this week I need to post two. Today is the first post and it is another one of my favorite quotes, this time via Oscar Wilde.

I love this quote because it reminds me that we all have a shared experience of knowing, feeling, and experiencing that sometimes life is just not fair, not pretty, and not fun. Life is hard. It might be hard in different ways for different people but it is still hard.

But, if that was all the quote was about that would just be depressing and disheartening and there is no way I’d post that on my door to see every day. But it ends with hope, which I think all stories and all lives should end with, because hope gets us through the hardness, the unfairness, and the pain that can make up our gutters in life. There are still stars, which let us know there is more to life and to the world than our current situation in the gutter.

And where there are stars, there is an opportunity to work and to reach them. And if that isn’t hopeful, I don’t know what is.

I hope you have a great day and I’ll be back to post my second calligraphy example later this week. 🙂