Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep.

(Attended a funeral today and I was not sad.)

Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep

Mary Elizabeth Frye


Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there; I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints on snow,
I am the sun on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush,
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not there; I did not die.

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We did not stand on her grave and weep.
We just stood there and wave goodbye.
For she lived a happy life
Up to ninety and six.

- Ghostwise

A Time For Every Matter Under Heaven.

(There is a death in the family today.)

For everything there is a season,

And a time for every matter under heaven:

A time to be born, and a time to die;

A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;

A time to kill, and a time to heal;

A time to break down, and a time to build up;

A time to weep, and a time to laugh;

A time to mourn, and a time to dance;

A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;

A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;

A time to seek, and a time to lose;

A time to keep, and a time to throw away;

A time to tear, and a time to sew;

A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

A time to love, and a time to hate,

A time for war, and a time for peace.

- Ecclesiastes 3:1-8


How happy and successful our live is,
Is how and when we die.

- Ghostwise

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Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave

Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;

Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.

I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

I will look at Death as a friend, if he comes gently and kind.

- Ghostwise

Some There Be That Shadows Kiss.

(Today, I was engaged in some shadow play.)


Some there be that shadows kiss;
Such have but a shadow's bliss.

- William Shakespeare, (The Merchant of Venice)


I seek substance in a shadow's kiss;
And was thus undernourished.

- Ghostwise

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To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

- William Shakespeare (Macbeth)


I played with shadows for so long,
That I could not tell,
Which is me and which is the shadow.

- Ghostwise

Die For A Cause Or Die For Nothing.

(Today seen the death of a corrupt politician.)

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes


Whether you live in a Palace or in a shack, Death will still come to claim you.

- Ghostwise

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It's a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.

- Andrew Young


For all his power and wealth, And all the good he could do with both, he dies for nothing.

- Ghostwise

What To Say To A Dying Man?

(Today I was privy to hear the amazing last lesson given by a dying man, hear for yourself - http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=ithct48cqw)

“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”

- Neil Gaiman


I thought about it for a long time but I still cannot come up with anything sincere to say to a dying man except "may the rest of your life be a happy one".

- Ghostwise

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“Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.”

- Pope Paul VI


This is exactly what we should be doing but we always think there will be tomorrows enough.

- Ghostwise

Love Never Dies In An Accident.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

- Anais Nin


Love never dies in an accident. It dies an assassination.

- Ghostwise

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Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery


Too often, we look in the wrong direction.

- Ghostwise

Feed Just One.

Picture from: World Vision

They that die by famine die by inches.

- Matthew Henry


No crueler way to die.

- Ghostwise

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“If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.”

- Mother Teresa


And less one hungry person in this world.

- Ghostwise

p.s. I tried to keep this blog separate from the others that I wrote. I'll make an exception this time. Both in the picture as well in the linkage. Please check out my current blog in "Ghost Walk". There is still an opportunity for any reader who wants to make a difference this Saturday. I'm not trying to do much except trying to feed just one.

Life & Death

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

- Richard Bach


Make it a good reason why you're not dead - yet.

- Ghostwise

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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

- Josh Billings


And satisfaction comes from how well you play those cards.

- Ghostwise