All's Right With The World

Do you ever wonder what happens to make everything seem right at one precise moment?  Do you ever wonder where this idea originated?

According Wikipedia.com,the phrase is from Pippa Passes, written by Robert Browning and published in 1841.

His original idea was of a young, innocent girl, moving through the crime-ridden neighborhoods of Asolo. She sings as she goes, unaware that her songs are influencing those that hear her to do good works. The excerpt  below is believe to be most famous passage:

The year's at the spring,

And day's at the morn;

Morning's at seven;

The hill-side's dew-pearled;

The lark's on the wing;

The snail's on the thorn;

God's in his Heaven -

All's right with the world!

When I have one of those miraculously perfect days where all's right in my world, I often times find myself thinking about the pseudoscience of biorhythm that was made popular in the 1970's.  For those of you that have no recollection whatsoever of the 70's for reasons which I won't go into here, I will try to summarize what biorhythms are.

Biorhythms are used to predict phases of a persons life using three simple cycles - physical, emotional & intellectual.  It is believed these cycles start at birth and continue throughout our lives and can be mathematically tracked and charted.  When the cycles peak this is a good day for that particular cycle - bad days are at the bottom of the cycle.  When all three cycles peak on the same day is when...

 

 

God's in his Heaven -

All's right with the world!

My wish for the day is that all's right in your world today!