Showing posts with label William Blake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label William Blake. Show all posts

Friday, November 22, 2024

Mastering 2025 Day By Day!

Book Review

Reviewer: Banji Ojewale

Book: Daily Manna (A Devotional Guide, January-December 2025)

Author: W. F. Kumuyi

Publishers: Life Press, Lagos, Nigeria

Pagination: 379

William Blake was the Romantic English poet who believed that if you had it right from sun-up, you’d be positioned for success all through the day till sun-down. What he simply meant was that you needed to dedicate quality time to plot your vision of the trajectory of the day as you leave the bed. You impose your wishes on the day before you move into it, he insists; otherwise you’d run into elemental and untamable circumstances. The writer who lived between two centuries (1757-1827) put it this way: ‘’Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.’’