A POSTCARD FROM HERE:
"SPRINGTIME"
Here ‘n now I'm watching a snowstorm
Here ‘n now I'm waiting for the earth to warm
Here ‘n now I'm feeling my new life, somehow
Here ‘n now I'm hearing a robin on the bough
Here ‘n now I am waking...
Here ‘n now I am waking...
Here ‘n now I am waking my spirit.
Here ‘n now I'm sunning my wings dry
Here ‘n now I'm singing to the spring sky
Here ‘n now I'm lifting my voice in reply
Here ‘n now I am one lovely butterfly
Here ‘n now I am waking...
Here ‘n now I am waking...
Here ‘n now I am waking my spirit.
Copyright © 2003-5 Charles Schwartz
REMINISCENCES FROM HERE
—FINDING MONEY
—FREE PHONE SERVICE
—THE PRETZEL LADY
—THE MOVIES AS REAL ENTERTAINMENT
—WHEN BULLIES WERE WIMPS
—SAILING TO STARDOM
—FINDING PEACE
—War WAS A CARD GAME
—RADIO COMEDIANS, MYSTERIES
A River Runs Through It, by Norman MacLean, died in 1990. His story opens with the memorable sentence, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing"; it ends with the regret that "Now nearly all those I loved and did not understand when I was young are dead, but I still reach out to them," followed by this passage:
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.
I am haunted by waters.
POSTCARD MESSAGES FROM THERE
"All my life I always wanted to be somebody. But I see now I should have been more specific."
"The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life Universe" ---by Jane Wagner
"The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible."
---Richard M. DeVos
"The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back."
--Marcus Annaeus Seneca
"One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine with only interests."
--John Stuart Mill
"Your heart is the power core of all your success,no matter what you are desiring, if your heart isn't in it,then you will be without it."
-- Doug Firebaugh
"Believe and act as if it were impossible to ail."
---Charles F. Kettering
"Only the mediocre are always at their best."
"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."
"Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated." --Frankenstein," --by Mary Shelley