“The measure of a life is a measure of love and respect,So hard to earn so easily burnedIn the fullness of time,A garden to nurture and protectIt’s a measure of a lifeThe treasure of a life is a measure of love and respect,The way you live, the gifts that you giveIn the fullness of time,It’s…
“The thing about knowing you’re doing something for the last time is that it takes the joy right out of it.” ― Lynda Rutledge, West with Giraffes I walk through life with a reminder in my head: We may never pass this way again. Not the Seals & Crofts song, for that would leave me…
Nature’s first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf’s a flower;But only so an hour.Then leaf subsides to leaf.So Eden sank to grief,So dawn goes down to day.Nothing gold can stay.— Robert Frost, Nothing Gold Can Stay Halfway through another month as I publish this, and I shake my head at the magic…
I’m growing older but not upMy metabolic rate is pleasantly stuckLet those winds of time blow over my headI’d rather die while I’m livin’ than live while I’m dead— Jimmy Buffett, I’m Growing Older But Not Up Two events happened concurrently over the last few days that rocked the boat for me. Jimmy Buffett passed…
“Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him—that is the best account of it that has been yet given. Squalor and tragedy can beckon to all that is great in us; and strengthen the wings of love.” ― E.M. Forster, Howards End We are, each of us, on borrowed time. There’s no…
“It’s the very last thing, isn’t it, we feel grateful for: having happened. You know, you needn’t have happened. You needn’t have happened. But you did happen.” — Douglas Harding My brother was told he had six months left to live. This was naturally shocking to him, less so for some of us who have…
“Mortality makes it impossible to ignore the absurdity of living solely for the future.” ― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals “We’ve been granted the mental capacities to make almost infinitely ambitious plans, yet practically no time at all to put them into action.” ― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management…
“You’re alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn’t lived it?” — Edward Albee “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven” — Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 Sometimes we find ourselves stressed…
I spent a lifetimeWaiting for the right timeNow that you’re nearThe time is here, at lastIt’s now or neverCome hold me tightKiss me my darlingBe mine tonight— Elvis Presley, It’s Now or Never What is your five year plan? Do you have one? Or should we simply live in the moment? Is there purpose in…
“Men are inclined to laziness. Some will feel that he might have said with greater justice: they are all timorous. They hide behind customs and opinions. At bottom, every human being knows very well that he is in this world just once, as something unique, and that no accident, however strange, will throw together a…