O perfect day

Many thanks to those who have sponsored me for the upcoming Ride for Heart. Your donations are truly appreciated. The ride will take place this Sunday (May 31). Unfortunately, the current forecast is for rain, my least favourite weather. But as I've learned to say in Canada, "It is what it is." Rain or shine, we ride!

If anyone else would like to sponsor me, or perform a sun dance, please please do. Link (for sponsorship): 

http://support.heartandstroke.ca/site/TR/Events/RFH2015?px=1090641&pg=personal&fr_id=1070&_ga=1.139210225.338951223.1428368156

For sunshine, not a link but a poem, one that mentions heart as well as sun. Seems apt.

A Day of Sunshine

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

O gift of God!  O perfect day:
Whereon shall no man work, but play;
Whereon it is enough for me,
Not to be doing, but to be! 
Through every fibre of my brain,
Through every nerve, through every vein,
I feel the electric thrill, the touch
Of life, that seems almost too much. 
I hear the wind among the trees
Playing celestial symphonies;
I see the branches downward bent,
Like keys of some great instrument. 
And over me unrolls on high
The splendid scenery of the sky,
Where through a sapphire sea the sun
Sails like a golden galleon, 
Towards yonder cloud-land in the West,
Towards yonder Islands of the Blest,
Whose steep sierra far uplifts
Its craggy summits white with drifts. 
Blow, winds! and waft through all the rooms
The snow-flakes of the cherry-blooms!
Blow, winds! and bend within my reach
The fiery blossoms of the peach! 
O Life and Love! O happy throng
Of thoughts, whose only speech is song!
O heart of man! canst thou not be
Blithe as the air is, and as free?