“The past is a hotel. You can visit any time, enjoy the view, but you can’t live there. The cost is too high.” B.J. Neblett
Swimming in the Past
Tag: Death
The Paradox of Schrödinger’s Cat
“Everyone dies, but no one is dead.” Tibetan Saying
Those Winter Blues
“And if the worst, or best, happens, and Death comes for you in the snow, he comes disguised as Sleep, and you greet him rather as a welcome friend than a gruesome foe.” Aspley Cherry-Garrard
A Quiet Haven
The Quiet Haven Motel is located near Lancaster County’s most popular sites and offers a peaceful, inviting atmosphere. Don’t let the gravestones scare you; I don’t think anyone has died there in a long time.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Rocks, Boulders, Stones
Bridging the Gap
Charles Bukowski once said: “I can almost understand why people leap from bridges.” Butt wait..
The Herr’s Mill Covered Bridge in Paradise is moving to the Stone Gables Estate in Elizabethtown as part of a program to save and preserve Lancaster County’s historic architectural treasures.
The grand opening for the bridge will be April 22nd, 2019 so you have plenty of time to consider an alternate route.
The Last Ears
“One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.” Dōgen
Cigars, Cigarettes, Tiparillos?
“Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
“Everything’s dead, but good, because it’s dead before coming alive, not dead after being alive. That’s how I look at it.” Alan Sillitoe
Drowning in the Mainstream
“You don’t accomplish much by swimming with the mainstream. Hell, a dead fish can do that.” Kinky Friedman
We’re All in the Same Boat
“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.” Charles Bukowski
