Hope This Finds You

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Every Monday for over twenty years David Smith has written open letters to the world in his Monday Moanin' column. At the end of each essay he sends his readers out into the week ahead with a single wish: Hope this finds you ... It may be leaning into possible telling stories or imagining but embodied in the wish is the essence of Mary Oliver's instructions for life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Hope This Finds You</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a collection of these letters celebrating the memories joys and aches of an extraordinary-ordinary life. It's a gift filled with gratitude for a life filled with light mystery possibility and humor. Each essay reminds us to experience all that waits for us today and to live with a spirit of curiosity wonder and high expectation</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Throughout you can hear the simple whisper: </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>never underestimate the day. </em></p>