The knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things, even if they are little things, not much otherwise than we have seen them, will continue to the end to be one of life’s choicest pleasures.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
A bang, not a whimper
Two months into L.'s retirement, and I'm finished with the stockpiling of books. No more book purchases! Or at least, no purcha...
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(See also Musee des Beaux Arts ) As far as mental anguish goes, the old painters were no fools. They understood how the mind, the freakiest ...
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When I finished Kevin Brockmeier's A Brief History of the Dead last spring I immediately did a search to see if the Coca-Cola Corp. had...
I really like this quote. Since much of what we experience is kept to ourselves, because that's what life is all about - experiencing EVERY second of the day - it's so easy to get lost in ourselves. It's so easy not to consider how someone else may view or relate to the same tree that you are passing by and then subconsciously click into memory, per se. To step back and actually acknowedge another's experience can be eye-opening,and sometimes helps us to appreciate life with all its ups and downs.
ReplyDeleteSorry for going off on a tangent! :)
yes, it makes me so happy...and proud too...i love "to recognize"
ReplyDeletemyself in books...it's both pleasant and comforting...that's why we read...to avoid loneliness..
thank you for your words...
Mousie from France