Of Life, Love and Recollection

Perhaps, because life is but a moment, it is insignificant, or, perhaps, because life is but a moment, it is momentous.

You spend years learning what's important and one heart-stopping moment learning what's more important.

It is said that you only get one life.  Actually, you get only one birth and one death.  How many lives you squeeze in is up to you.

 

Love can be a conversation about nothing, or it can be a quiet comfort in each other's presence that is about everything.

What we see in an old family photo is not just a still moment in time but a moment when there was still time.

Ah, nostalgia!  We live our days in the glare of the sun and recall them in the glow of the moon.

from Reflections

As Deep As I Get

There are things the human mind cannot comprehend, among them the boundlessness of possibility.  Only by accepting this do we free our hopes from the limits of our understanding. Why confine our consolations to some narrow theology when every miracle we could wish for lies in the unknowability that is God?  The answer to the eternal "Why" is "We Don't Know" and in those three words, "We Don't Know," lies all hope.

If there's one thing you learn in a long life, it is that God will eventually do what is necessary to capture your attention.  

Religion and science have this in common, that each believes in a mystical, unseen Trinity, invisibly controlling the universe.  For religion, it is the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  For science, it is Dark Mass, Dark Energy and Dark Flow.

The Fruit Untasted

 Life is more a basket of kumquats than a bowl of cherries -- the task you kumquat finish, the promise you kumquat keep, the "I'm sorry" you kumquat say. 

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Define Marriage

Disclaimer:  The following applies to marriages generally and not to any particular marriage I might be involved in.  😉

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Marriage:  the unforeseen consequence of a wedding.

Marriage:  a state of bliss in which if one partner dies unexpectedly, the other is the prime suspect.

Marriage: the process by which, after two become one, they decide which one.

Marriage:  a partnership formed with no clear objective and sustained by the absence of any clear alternative.

Four Thoughts

 It is a shame to keep a deep dark secret from the one person who might most help you to bear its burden.

It is sad when a relationship survives all the reasons it could never work only to fail because you neglected the reasons it should have worked.

There are words said in the heat of argument that cannot be unsaid.  You can only hope that love will unhear.

The ultimate test of love is a test of forgiveness, and no one so tested will ever ask again, "What is love?"  

As I See It

A working republic is a tangible entity, consisting of the government, the governed and a neutral third party mediator called the Constitution.  

A working democracy is an intangible ideal, defined by an enlightened leadership and supported by an essentially non-political electorate amenable to leadership.

The most basic progressive belief is that if we can get the rich to pay their fair share, we won't have to pay ours.

The most basic conservative belief is that if you weren't born to opportunity, you had your chance.

A political party is like any other conspiracy, the people it targets believing they are part of the conspiracy.

If we of the middle class nearly always support the rich over the poor, it is because we rightly believe that the poor want what we have while wrongly believing that the rich don't.

A free-enterprise system is a meritocracy where a few enterprising individuals eventually control most of the wealth, and where, if left unbridled, the most enterprising single individual eventually controls all the wealth.

Imperfection Anyone?

What if you eliminated all the faults in your character only to discover that the faults were the only character you had? 

There's nothing like a self-improvement program to discover what your friends used to like about you.

If we learn from our mistakes, shouldn't a job resume be a list of our mistakes?

One of life's more jolting discoveries is that you are not your best friend's best friend.

It is less what love sees in you than what love chooses to overlook.

The hardest part of marrying "for better or worse" is when it's better for one and worse for the other.

Mozart died at 35.  Alexander the Great died at 32.  Makes you wonder what great things you might have achieved if you had only died young.