Dear Readers,
Monday’s post is a day early following a Sunday morning of reading Emily Dickinson with my daughter who had breakfast and then asked to read more Emily Dickinson.

To Emily from Ellen

If I can fill a heart
with joy,
Then the world has gained;

If I can help one more person understand,
Or think again,

Or look at me with eyes retrained
to see all that can be attained,

Then the world has gained.

— By Ellen Rückmann-Bruch with Rüdiger Rückmann
Written on 26 February 2017