"Mysteriously, wonderfully ...."

Mysteriously, wonderfully, I bid farewell to what goes, I greet what comes; for what comes cannot be denied, and what goes cannot be detained.

Chuang Tzu

To Mother (1924-2016)

A nurturer

Till the end

In health, and

In sickness

she teaches

she gives.
'Thank you, mother'

"To fear death ...."

To fear death 
is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. 
For it is to think one knows what one does not know. 
No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be 
the greatest blessings of human beings. 
And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.

Socrates

"One can get as much ...."

One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little thing as in a big thing.  It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy.

Anne Morrow Lindberg

"... there is what you ...."

“… there is what you can’t do, there is what you no longer want to do, and there is what has become of central importance ....”

Penelope Lively