June 10, 2024
There are not frogs everywhere where there is water, but where you have frogs, there you will find water.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German poet and playwright (1749-1832)
Source: Maxims and Reflections transl. Baily Saunders (buy from Amazon)
The Boston Globe’s editors and I agreed in December 2015 that Reflection for the Day will no longer appear in the newspaper, ending a 32-year run since the feature was launched by visionary Boston Globe editor Thomas Winship. I will continue to publish the Reflections on this website every day, including most Sundays, into 2016 and beyond. To my many regular print readers through the years I extend deep gratitude and warm wishes for the New Year. —Thomas B. Fitzpatrick, Jr.