To give of one’s self: to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived…this is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Gordon Lightfoot Day
Now that I am old, let me rest a spell All that I am told, I can never tell Never in my life, never will it pass I am still alone, remembering at last Once upon a time, once upon a day when I was in my prime, once along the way
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