Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.

The line frames ordinary time as a series of offerings: every day arrives “bearing its own gifts,” but those gifts are not automatic. “Untie the ribbons” shifts responsibility to the recipient, suggesting that attention, receptivity, and deliberate engagement are required to discover what a day contains. The metaphor also implies that gifts may be modest, wrapped in routine or difficulty, and easily overlooked if one stays hurried or closed off. In a literary sense, the aphorism encourages a practice of daily openness—treating experience as something to be unwrapped rather than endured—while acknowledging that meaning is often concealed by the packaging of habit.