‘you’re positively glowing…’

‘Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose
From out night’s gray and cloudy sheath;
Softly and still it grows and grows,
Petal by petal, leaf by leaf…’
Susan Coolidge, “The Morning Comes Before The Sun”

root of all troubles….

“This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.” Plato