.
. . you know who you are I don't not fully
It
is an education of sorts evolutionary this collecting of quotes. From
near birth to near death I have had words stuck in my craw nettlesome
not lamented but there memorable as a pebble in my sandal or thorns
in paws both or all four feet
in
times of deepest despair seldom I seek the consolation of those whose
agony vastly greater than mine survived the next breath dawn drawing
nigh to eternity I am succored and held in the arms of the beloved
warmed pacific . . . .
“His anecdotes are
'casual' only in appearance; Montaigne writes: 'Neither my anecdotes
nor my quotations are always employed simply as examples, for
authority, or for ornament . .They often carry, off the subject under
discussion, the seed of a richer and more daring matter, and they
resonate obliquely with a more delicate tone,' Michel de Montagne,
Essais Pléiade, Paris (ed.A.Thibaudet) 1937, Bk.1,ch.40 p.252
.
. . a discovered friend brother playmate he Michel de Montagne
frequently sought collecting quotes . . . "I have gathered a
garland of other men’s flowers, and nothing is mine but the cord
that binds them."
of
these friends and their flowers I sometimes weep others laugh and
then grow and inch larger
this
heart seeking to be large enough to contain the smallest part God's
love for all of us gathered
©
2012 by Jack Spratt All Rights Reserved
PS
"Absence from
those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment."
--William
Shakespeare (1564-1616)
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