Parting Wisdom {That's All Folks)

"Fate is a fancy name we give to the absence of a plan."


"Maybe you're not the best person you can be, but you have the best shot at it."


"Life is a continuing attempt to overcome the personal shortcomings that make us likable."

"You can break up a marriage and remain friends.  It's a harder thing to break up a friendship and remain married."


"There is a point in a relationship where if you haven't told each other your every secret, don't."

"If you never eat a ripe banana until you finish the overripe ones, you will spend your life eating overripe bananas."

"The problem with living happily ever after is that it means the story's over."

Who Be These Strangers?

We are, in the course of a lifetime, many different people, time-sharers of the same mind and body.

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Who be these strangers in my past,

These ghosts from yesterday,

Whose battle scars I carry still,

Whose debts I must repay,

Whose ancient yearnings fill my heart,

Whose mem'ries flood my brain,

Whose sins reside upon my soul,

Forever to remain?

What be this image in my glass,

This space my spirit rents,

If not a house still haunted by

Its previous occupants.

More From The Miscellany Bucket

What makes the daily moral clash between mind and body so challenging is that the body has no ethics at all. 

It is hard to change someone's mind who believes it in their head bone. 

The intangibles of life not only bring the greater happiness, they require less attic space.

It is often wise, before giving up on a relationship, to try one more degree of separation.

Perhaps worse than never realizing your dream is never having enjoyed your consolations.

One of life's harder calls is whether someone who understands you is ready to hear the rest.

We Stayed Together For The Kids

We stayed together for the kids,

Two kids we barely knew,

Who once upon a moonlit night

Back when the world was new,

Resolved to love forevermore 

And stay forever true.

 

Wait...Say That Again

If you can remember it without tears, it wasn't happiness.

Ever wonder what history would look like if we stopped trying to force everything into chronological order?

 

It is probably true that everything we were taught as a child would be thrown out of a court of law as leading the witness. 

If today the world were perfect, with what aching nostalgia would we look back on the Age of Possibility. 

If God is an illusion, then I have this question -- can you have an illusion without an Illusionist? 

You can't look at the night sky without wondering how this tiny enterprise called Planet Earth will ever justify its overhead.