A Thought By The Fire

 How often do we search to find

  in memories of old

Or in some fancied, wistful dream

 of days to yet unfold

Or in our fond imaginings of places

  far and wide

The happiness that all the while

  is sitting by our side.

Tender Subjects

I asked, "How can anyone who really knows me ever love me?" only to discover that it was the only way anyone ever would.

"It's not easy -- loving someone through the chinks in their armor -- and we seldom appreciate enough the person we ask it of."

"To truly know someone is to know the thing they never speak of -- and to recognize the silences that speak of it."

Just We Three

 "There are memories I choose not to live with, although we occasionally walk the same beach."

New Year's Thoughts

 "If everyone were a perfectionist, there would never have been an opening night on Broadway."

 

"It is a rare person who can distinguish a purpose in life from the side effects of having been born." 

"A Supreme Court justice can only be one of the following: liberal, conservative or just."

"If you have never lied to protect your honor, then you may call yourself honorable."

"Nothing runs out sooner than time to spare."

A Final Thought For 2023

 "On either side of faith lie certainty and doubt.  Of the two, certainty is the greater enemy of faith." 

Reality vs Possibility

"It is not so much that we accept reality as that we accept a limiting perception of things that then becomes our reality. Would it not be better to see reality as possibility, not something to accept but to explore, a perception not of constraints but of opportunity?"

The True History...

 "The true history of any era is of what human ingenuity accomplished while some would-be conqueror was distracting historians."