In Japan there is a phrase Nichi nichi kore kōnichi which broadly translates as ‘every day is a good day’. Klingons prefer Heghlu’meH QaQ jajvam (today is a good day to die) which probably needs a long run up and mouthful of phlegm to do it justice, as well as a decent dose of warrior spirit!
Mostly I prefer the first, but with the current situation as it is, you would be forgiven for any reflections you may be having on mortality.
“We’re only making plans for Nigel”
— XTC, Making Plans for Nigel (Drums and Wires, 1979)
Woody Allen once said, “If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans”. Mr Allen has (rightly in my opinion) rather fallen out of favour in the modern world and I find myself unable to watch Manhattan again without feeling distinctly queasy. The issue of separating an artist and their work is one for another day, but knowing that Mariel Hemingway was seventeen in that film, and Allen 44, is pretty discomforting. This quote, however, is apposite, and well above the age of consent.
As much as I admire creative writers and visual artists, I was born with a brain that runs on logic (well, logic and 85% cocoa dark chocolate). Even as a child, I remember looking up at the tiled ceiling in my bedroom and looking for patterns. I suppose that might sound artistic in some sense, but I was looking for mathematical patterns and similarly found joy in the fact you could play with numbers in ways that had a satisfying logical consistency.
Living With Narwhals 