I Remember The Time I Knew What Happiness Was.

(Stir up some memories today.)

Midnight
Not a sound from the pavement
Has the moon lost her memory?
She is smiling alone
In the lamplight
The withered leaves collect at my feet
And the wind begins to moan

Memory
All alone in the moonlight
I can smile at the old days
I was beautiful then
I remember the time I knew what happiness was
Let the memory live again

- Musical "Cats" lyrics - Memory


Memories
Like the corners of my mind
Misty watercolor memories
Of the way we were
Scattered pictures
Of the smiles we left behind
Smiles we gave to one another
For the way we were

Can it be that it was all so simple then
Or has time rewritten every line
If we had the chance to do it all again
Tell me - Would we? Could we?

Memories
May be beautiful and yet
What's too painful to remember
We simply to choose to forget

So it’s the laughter
We will remember
Whenever we remember
The way we were

- Barbra Streisand - The Way We Were


Memory flows softly
Like wind through trees.
And where it touches,
The leaves quiver.
And my heart flutters.

- Ghostwise

Be On Guard Against Silent Dog & Still Water.

(Today I tried to enter a heavily guarded building.)

“Be on your guard against a silent dog and still water”

- Latin Proverb


Misfortune and malice strikes silently.

- Ghostwise

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“It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind. Therefore, it is foolish to guard against misfortunes from the external world and leave the inner mind uncontrolled.”

- Buddha


In the safety of our mind, we let down the guard on our thoughts.

- Ghostwise

All Destinations Are Just Temporary Stops.

“The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.”

- Don Williams, Jr.


All destinations are just temporary stops in our journey through life anyway.

- Ghostwise

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“Let your mind start a journey thru a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be...Close your eyes let your spirit start to soar, and you'll live as you've never lived before.”

- Erich Fromm


Don't travel with just our mind or soul either, take the body along and make it a complete discovery.

- Ghostwise

Forcing A Floppy Disk Into A DVD Drive.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

-Alvin Toffler


If you cannot unlearn, you are bound to repeat the mistakes made because what you had learned is no longer applicable. Liked trying to force a floppy disk into a DVD drive.

- Ghostwise.

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The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.

- Bill Beattie


There is not enough good teachers who respect their students enough to do that. Most think it is better they learn something than nothing at all. I call that 'justifiable homicide'.

- Ghostwise.

Can One Be A Poet If He Doesn't Write A Single Line?

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

- George Sand, 1851


A true poet is one who took delights in poetry, not necessarily one writes it.

- Ghostwise

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The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem."

- Robert Penn Warren


Poetry are meant to be enjoyed with the heart not the mind.

- Ghostwise