No way, Maurice... no ending a post with a "trailing off..." remark about Hula girls (women...persons...?). That's not nice...unless you can link me to them.
Thanks for the Innuit poem. I've got a quote for you...from Abraham Lincoln's favorite book, "Oh, Why Should the Spirit of Mortal Be Proud?" :
"Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Like a swift fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud,
A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave,
Man passeth from life to his rest in the grave.
The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade,
Be scattered around and together be laid;
and the young and the old, and the low and the high,
Shall moulder to dust and together shall lie.
'Tis the wink of an eye, 'tis the draught of a breath,
From the blossom of health to the paleness of death,
From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud, -
Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud?"
Seems prophetic that Abe would have loved this poem... and it reminds me that any concerns I have about investments and money are freighted with no more significance than that which a dust-mote attributes to the zephyr that wings it from here to there... |
