My Mama Done Told Me...(& The Dalai Lama)

My Mama done told me...(pleasant tune from old gospel stuck in my brain)

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity

to "jump at the sun." We might not land on the sun,

but at least we would get off the ground.

Zora Neale Hurston Dust Tracks on a Road (gratefulness.org)