Nostalgia

Tomorrow always comes with the silent assurance that things will be better than they were today. Because the day is over once you fall asleep; and there in your dreams is the energy and spirit needed to wake up one more time and try again. It is the dreams, remembered or forgotten, that bring life and creativity to the dawn of a new day. You may not see the connection and you may not understand the need for these dreams, but they foster new and precious thoughts in your unconscious that show themselves in the form of ideas that could only have come from deep in your imagination. And what what better kind of thoughts to carry us through another day of impossibilities, than those that have already conquered the impossible...

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Looking back, it really was about everything everyone said it would be about. It was about the car--an old run-down Chevy truck that smelled of guacamole and only fit three people in the cab; course, I always had at least five. It was about the house--a hovel in the ground that had no lockings doors, wallpaper inspired from a country scene of a poorly made Jane Austen movie, and carpet that looked like vomit and didn't smell too different. The house was falling apart but it was always full of friends. It was about the vacations--the camping trips in rain storms where everything got wet, the island trips to the islands they don't show in the brochures for a reason...several reasons, and the road-trips with no pre-thought destination that take you into the lives of those you care about more than any other drive could do. Yep. People told me all my life that it was all about the cars, the house, and the vacations. And I don't think they'll ever know how right they were.

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"We as humans want thing to last longer than they can. And we fool ourselves into thinking that even though we move away and move on, we can still keep things the way they used to be. But we can't. And we're left with a sweet sense of melancholy; a yearning for the past that makes us want the present to be that much better. A remembrance of child-hood adventures, high school sweethearts, and the good times that get better with the passing of years that we want to pass on to our kids. While location can pretty much end a relationship as it was, it can also create new ones with our memories; the kodachrome images of the past that we show on gently humming slide projectors, while sipping creams sodas in the quiet dark." --CEH

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It's funny how nostalgia can set in so quickly. Sometimes it happens when you watch the sunset and you remember how it felt to see it the first time. Sometimes it's the taste of Bing cherries on a summer afternoon that takes you back in the years to another summer afternoon. It's watching your children take their first steps, their first soccer game, their first day of school...or their last. It's watching a movie you haven't seen since forever ago and still remembering all the lines. It's when you're driving down a long road, and you put in a cassette tape that you thought only existed in your memories. It's sorting through boxes of memorabilia and remembering everything between the tears. And all these things stay with you. The feeling of time gone by and the memories of all the good and bad times that fit together like puzzle pieces. That's what life is all about.

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"I don't know where we're goin' but there's no use bein' late."--Quigley Down Under

"Time is nature's way of stopping everything from happening at once."

"Not all those who wonder are lost." --J.R.R. Tolkien

"This is my day of opportunity. I will not waste it." --Pres. Monson

"Woman was created for our destruction; and from her all our miseries arise."--The Three Musketeers; Alexander Dumas

"Success will come when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change."

"If at first you don't succeed, call it version 1.0" :)