What We All Lost Growing Up.

(Today, I pass by a bamboo grove).

You rode up on your bamboo steed,
Round garden beds we juggled green plums;
Living alike in Changgan village
We were both small, without doubts or guile.

Li Bo (701 - 762) - "The Ballad of Changgan"


Innocence - what we all lost growing up.

- Ghostwise

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Young bamboo trees are easy to bend.

- Vietnamese Proverbs


Like old bamboo, old men cannot be bend without breaking a few bones.

- Ghostwise

Secret Loves Cannot Remain Secret For Long.

“If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.”

- Kahlil Gibran


Each of us has someone we want to tell our secrets to.

- Ghostwise

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Once I had a secret love
That lived within the heart of me
All too soon my secret love
Became impatient to be free

So I told the friendly star
The way that dreamers often do
Just how wonderful you are
And why I'm so in love with you

Now I shout it from the highest hills
Even told the golden daffodils
At last my heart's an open door
And my secret love's no secret anymore

- Music by Sammy Fain, lyrics by Paul Francis Webster


Secret loves cannot remain secret for long,
For they are too impatient to be free.

- Ghostwise

Man and Nature.

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

- Hal Borland

Trees teach me endurance. Grass teaches me perseverance.

- Ghostwise

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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

- John Muir

Because there is no man around.

- Ghostwise