Monday, August 23, 2010

So Sayeth Teddy

The worst of all fears is the fear of living.
Theodore Roosevelt










Roosevelt coat of arms

Monday, August 16, 2010

Strange Learning

When in the end, the day came in which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at a time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.
Isak Dinesen
Out of Africa

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

The Hearing Trumpet


As a character who is dead says - regarding death - in this magical novel:
You think it's going to end all the time but it never does.

Monday, August 9, 2010

Still Here

If individuals live on after death, where do they go?
Perhaps nowhere.
They're still here.
Fred M. Frohock