life's extras

Life’s Extras - the things we do not have to have, but which we enjoy all the more for that very reason. 
Below is a collection of "extras" that I have created over the years. 

"Creation supplies us with only two kinds of things: necessities and extras. Sunlight, air, water, food, shelter — all are bare necessities,
but moonlight and starlight are distinctly extras; so are music, perfumes, and flowers.
Most fascinating is the question: who put them here, and for what purpose?"

Look all around you every day and you will notice many of Life’s Extras ---
a blooming flower, a gentle breeze, a singing bird, a beautiful sunset.
You will never complete a list of the “Extras”.


A passage from LIFE’S  EXTRAS  [1928]
by Archibald Rutledge  [1883-1973]
Poet Laureate of South Carolina  [1934-1973]