The Best Mirror Is An Old Friend.

(Last night, we had a reunion of old friends in an old place.)

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes


New friends are only good if they become old. For the passage of time always sift new friends to people you knew and friends you care about.

- Ghostwise

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The best mirror is an old friend.

- George Herbert


Friends come and go
Those that remained becomes old
Have their reasons to stay
Like a mirror they say -
"We're what you deserve
and deserving of you."

- Ghostwise

You'll Know When It Is Time To Go Home.

(It is good to be back home.)

Another aeroplane
Another sunny place
I'm lucky I know
But I wanna go home
Mmmm I've got to go home

- Christina Conseco


Some places it may take a week
Some places two
Some places a month maybe more
But there always comes a time
When I long - to go home.

- Ghostwise

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To thee I'll return, overburdened with care;
The heart's dearest solace will smile on me there;
No more from that cottage again will I roam;
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.
Home, home, sweet, sweet, home!
There's no place like home, oh, there's no place like home!

- John Howard Payne


Somehow, I always sleep sweeter,
In my own bed, In my own home.

- Ghostwise

Yesterday He Hadn't Time, Now He Has Eternity.

(Today I think I'm a modern man, and that is not good.)


“Modern man thinks he loses something - time
when he does not do things quickly.
Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains
except kill it.”

- Erich Fromm


Why do we kill the thing we are afraid of losing?

- Ghostwise

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Here lies, extinguished in his prime,
a victim of modernity:
but yesterday he hadn't time---
and now he has eternity.

-Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996)


When he has eternity, only does he realize how important are those things he hadn't time for.

- Ghostwise

Buy An Inch Of Time With An Inch Of Gold.

(I was given some 'gold' today not real one unfortunately but just as sweet. Chinese New Year is just around the corner and friends and giving "Kam" (Mandarin Orange). So today's post is about gold of a different kind).

“An inch of time is an inch of gold, but you can't buy that inch of time with an inch of gold”

- Chinese Proverbs

The older you get the more value you place on time and less on gold.

- Ghostwise

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“Don't miss all the beautiful colors of the rainbow looking for that pot of gold.”

- Author Unknown

When you are only looking down, you cannot see the color of the sky.

- Ghostwise

We Sang The Same Old Lang Syne.

(Yesterday's lost, I still feel today. So I've another day of tribute as I remembered The Same Old Lang Syne).

We drank a toast to innocence, we drank a toast to now
And tried to reach beyond the emptiness but neither one knew how
We drank a toast to innocence, we drank a toast to time
Reliving in our eloquence, another 'auld lang syne'

The beer was empty and our tongues were tired
And running out of things to say
She gave a kiss to me as I got out and I watched her drive away
Just for a moment I was back at school
And felt that old familiar pain

And as I turned to make my way back home
The snow turned in to rain...

- Dan Folgeberg, Same Old Lang Syne from the Album The Innocent Age, 1981


We drank a toast to innocence, we drank a toast to time
Feel that old familiar pain, as we sang the Same Old Lang Syne.

- Ghostwise

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When you’re not near me
The time don’t seem to move as easy
When you’re not near me
The sun don’t seem to feel the same
The days don’t shine as brightly
And the nights don’t taste as sweet
And this soul of mine feels
lost and incomplete.

- Dan Folgeberg, When You're Not Near Me from the Album Full Circle, 2003


When you're not near me
I fill the space with your music.

- Ghostwise

When Everything Hurts.

(I now returned to my "Roses" series. There are 48 images but I may not put them all up. I've posted 17 so far (including this). They were taken in a nursery just after a heavy rain, in a hurry under fading lights so did not appear as vibrant. But the little droplets of water and imperfections such as blemish make them more natural and beautiful in my opinion.)

“I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”

- C.S. Lewis


The ones who hurts knows that. Only he could not find the words and the someone he could speak to.

- Ghostwise

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You must live through the time when everything hurts.

- Stephen Spender


No matter how much it hurts, we must live through it for that is the only cure.

- Ghostwise

Time Trapped In Eternity.

“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.”

- Henry Van Dyke


And when love ends, you find time is still trapped in eternity.

- Ghostwise

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”What is time? The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the sand, day and night, summer and winter, months, years, centuries -- these are but arbitrary and outward signs, the measure of Time, not Time itself. Time is the Life of the soul.”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Measures not time by the hours of the day or the seasons of the year but by how your life is spent.

- Ghostwise