Yesterday’s art … a scene captured on the hop. — Quick sketch by Pat Bean
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi
‘If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.” – Thomas Aquina
A Journey through the Mind
Pepper taking a break on the picnic table after a hard run around the dog park. She got groomed later this day. — Photo by Pat Bean
As a young, but erratic journal keeper, I quickly realized that what I would write one day would not be the same thing I would write the next day. Not only is memory an infallible tool, life changes us every day.
No one puts this reality into luscious words better than Vita Sackville-West in my favorite writing quote:
“It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.”
While it can be confusing, irritating and even debilitating occasionally, I’m glad my mind, and hence my writing, is constantly in a state of flux. It’s a byproduct of my eagerness to learn something new each and every day, and my willingness to take my ship into unknown waters.
Blog pick of the day.
Bean Pat: The Return of the Modern Philosopher http://tinyurl.com/m3udejl A very large umbrella solves the problem. This blogger usually has a very upside down view of life. He makes me laugh.
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