Preparing for the final activities and thoughts of 2011

I've been going through a lot of papers and books saved because I thought they were very important and worthy to keep. Basically, it's my second-sifting of them, and another 10% has been recycled. Yet, the inspiring words of others continue to counsel me and I am grateful to have the remaining 90%!
There is a book titled New Suns Will Arise - From the Journals of Henry David Thoreau -- text edited by Frank Crocitto and beautiful photography by John Dugdale. Here, I will share what is on page 20, from Thoreau's journal entry dated March 15, 1852:
"May I dare as I have never done! May I purify myself anew as with fire and water, soul and body! May I gird myself to be a hunter of the beautiful, that naught escape me! May I attain to a youth never attained! I am eager to report the glory of the universe; may I be worthy to do it; to have got through with regarding human values, so as not to be distracted from regarding divine values. It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning."